Category: dyeing
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Thank you for tuning in again this week! Welcome to new and returning viewers. Thank you to the Patreon community for the ongoing support that keeps the show on the air week after week. This week, I chat about degumming my carrier rod silk and carding it together with some cotton from my stash. I’ve…
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Remember back in November 2015 I took a weekend-long workshop at Maiwa in dyeing? Then I had a weekend of dyeing fun a few weeks later and created a gorgeous skein of hand-painted Romney in natural dyes. I was really proud of the saturation of colours I was able to achieve, based on some direction…
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The Wool n’ Spinning Podcast Episode 19 :: Spindles! March 2016 Thank you for watching! This week’s show features a recap of a local fibre festival last weekend, spindles and the March Sweet Georgia Yarns’ fibre club reveal! This episode does not include a tutorial on ratios – I am working on a blog post…
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I am already deviating a little from my February-focus on Textured Yarns. I will continue with that discussion on Monday, but I couldn’t wait any longer to chat about this yarn … There has been much chatter in the knitting and spinning world about ‘breed specific’ yarns. It is a hot topic at the moment…
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The Wool n’ Spinning Podcast Episode 15 :: Surrounded by Fibre January 2016 Sorry for the slight background noise! Thank you for watching! This week’s show features a lot of projects just getting started and the January Sweet Georgia Yarns club reveal! I am a Craftsy affiliate. This means that when you click on the…
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The Wool n’ Spinning Podcast Episode 14 :: Getting Started with Sampling January 2016 I’m not sure what happened but part of the sampling segment was missing and the other part repeated twice! I’m sorry for this major inconvenience but you only saw part of the story of how I sample. If you’d like to see just…
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About a month ago I had the opportunity to take a course at a local textiles’ school called Maiwa. Many fibre artists from the Vancouver, BC, surrounding GVRD and province, and Washington state will be familiar with Maiwa as they have a store front, as well as a supply store, on Granville Island in the Kitsilano…
