Greetings. The yarn is just beautiful. What lovely shades you have there. Melanie Falick’s book on Kid’s knitting dye’s yarn with crayons. You get really vibrant colors and it’s non-toxic and safe.
This reminds me of the koolaid brown sheep yarn I dyed a horrid bright blue (berry blue color) back at Grinnell. I think that yarn is still hidden away somewhere in my attic, or at my parents’ house.
I did dig out a giant box of homespun and am now using it to make a gorgeous, lacy shawl as my hands allow (the wool is too rough for my skin sometimes).
I love this idea for children with the food-safe Easter egg dye! What a great idea for kid-friendly, safe projects for dying yarns. Do you think the dye would work with fabric, too? I’m “dyeing” to try it!
Hello! My friend Sara does a lot of spinning and natural dyeing as well. Thought you might like to see her blog, she has a link on the left specifically for sheep/wool/spinning… http://farmama.typepad.com/
I have your blog bookmarked and it took me until today to figure out that it was always bringing me to same post, so I thought there was never anything new. But now I will be sure to check back often!
[...] like this dear lady. Someone more beautifully poetic, like her. Someone more crafty, like this gal. Someone funnier, like her (and him). Certainly someone with more God-inspired wisdom, like [...]
[...] is some Brown Sheep mill-end roving we dyed with leftover Easter egg dye (for instructions, see here.) I’ll ply the singles and it’ll make a nice pastel sock [...]
[...] spun, shown above, spun with Brown Sheep mill-end roving, dyed with just a bit of leftover Blue-Raspberry Kool-Aid (we left it mostly white, and drizzled a little kool-aid here and there). I think I’ll ply [...]
Greetings. The yarn is just beautiful. What lovely shades you have there. Melanie Falick’s book on Kid’s knitting dye’s yarn with crayons. You get really vibrant colors and it’s non-toxic and safe.
This reminds me of the koolaid brown sheep yarn I dyed a horrid bright blue (berry blue color) back at Grinnell. I think that yarn is still hidden away somewhere in my attic, or at my parents’ house.
I did dig out a giant box of homespun and am now using it to make a gorgeous, lacy shawl as my hands allow (the wool is too rough for my skin sometimes).
I love this idea for children with the food-safe Easter egg dye! What a great idea for kid-friendly, safe projects for dying yarns. Do you think the dye would work with fabric, too? I’m “dyeing” to try it!
Hello! My friend Sara does a lot of spinning and natural dyeing as well. Thought you might like to see her blog, she has a link on the left specifically for sheep/wool/spinning… http://farmama.typepad.com/
I have your blog bookmarked and it took me until today to figure out that it was always bringing me to same post, so I thought there was never anything new. But now I will be sure to check back often!
[...] like this dear lady. Someone more beautifully poetic, like her. Someone more crafty, like this gal. Someone funnier, like her (and him). Certainly someone with more God-inspired wisdom, like [...]
[...] dad, who has made me all sorts of great spindles and fiber tools, made me a new spinning wheel flyer to replace the broken one on [...]
[...] is some Brown Sheep mill-end roving we dyed with leftover Easter egg dye (for instructions, see here.) I’ll ply the singles and it’ll make a nice pastel sock [...]
[...] spun, shown above, spun with Brown Sheep mill-end roving, dyed with just a bit of leftover Blue-Raspberry Kool-Aid (we left it mostly white, and drizzled a little kool-aid here and there). I think I’ll ply [...]