The yarns I dyed at Louise's. These started out as 3 balls of white 2 ply wool I had spun.
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This blog shows my ongoing enjoyment of fibre arts (spinning, weaving, crochet, learning to knit, felting, etc) and may also contain some other of my crafts/skills in other areas.
About Me
- Alice (in BC Canada)
- I am 'critter crazy' and currently share my home with 1 cat, 1 rabbit, 4 chinchillas, 1 Indian Ringneck Parrot, 2 Pacific Parrotlets, 5 Cockatiels. (No, sorry, no partridge and no pear tree).
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- Here are the first 6 granny squares, each one is 4...
- Threads, elastics, zippers, 3 in 1 Oil, other odds...
- 14 crochet hooks, 13 pairs of knitting needles, 4...
- Acrylic yarns. Again, several balls have not been...
- 100% cotton crochet yarn ... as you can see, 10 ba...
- Major Stash Addition
- I used a different yarn for the soles as I was tir...
- My new slippers
- Slippers
- Third place hanging on display.
- The unfinished shawl made by the Salmon Arm Spinne...
- The winners hanging on display.
- Kalamalka Spinners & Weavers.
- Ponderosa Spinners, Weavers & Fibre Artists from K...
- Monashee Weavers and Spinners: Left to right; Barb...
- The judge at work.
- A closer look at the weave pattern.
- Our shawl.
- A closer look, note the pink is the towel under th...
- This shawl is a very loose weave.
- A close up
- Waiting for judging, here's one of the other shawls.
- Louise at the loom, Rosalie sitting behind her, de...
- Kitty and Lynnette. The bobbins are full and the ...
- Barb N. hard at work.
- This is the shawl that didn't finish due to loom p...
- Awhile into the competition I finally got a few mi...
- The bobbin winder with the bobbins and shuttles.
- Louise's loom all ready to go.
- Everyone getting ready to go.
- This is where we were set up at the fair. It was a...
- Sheep to Shawl
- Kool-Aid dyed samples. Again the top is samples o...
- The Acid Dye samples: bottom are the ones that sat...
- To Vinegar or Not To Vinegar, that is the question!
- Each of the skeins are labled, whether natural col...
- Kool-Aid colors are, left to right: Kool-Tea Wildb...
- Hanging on my wall is a number of skeins I've spun...
- Three clumps of fleece drying after being solar di...
- This one was fun... I injected the ball with 3 col...
- This also went through 2 dye baths, first teal, th...
- I put each of this through 2 dye baths; first one...
- The yarns I dyed at Louise's. These started out as...
- For this one I spun and plied the wool before I dy...
- Samples of wool dyed using vinegar and not using v...
- Another section in my binder.
- This page is Procion MX Dyes, the samples are 100%...
- This is just one of the pages on Acid Dyes.
- In the binder are notes from the Dyeing Workshop a...
- Dyeing binder... for notes and samples.
- A Good Day to Dye!!
- How's this for a "water feature"?
- Beauty everywhere you look up here.
- Check out the view.
- All these 4x4s sure come in handy.
- Looks like more food.
- Beautiful day for a picnic.
- Picnic Time
- Notice the different colors in this one. Still al...
- Louise wove this shawl using the changes she wante...
- 20 July 2005, JoAnne is modeling the "new and impr...
- This is me trying on the same shawl... we all "had...
- This is all done with natural colored alpaca, no d...
- The sun is in Louise's eyes and the shade is on th...
- It's now wet finished and ready to wear.
- At one of our spin-ins two weeks after Lumby Days ...
- Here is the shawl once it was cut off the loom. I...
- Later on Jo Anne (background) came to join us for ...
- Louise weaving with Barb and Kitty spinning in the...
- Barb on the left uses a Lendrum upright spinning w...
- Alpaca to Apparel
- Notice all the fringes, each one has 2 tiny seed b...
- This was 2 long pieces, hand sewn together up the ...
- Another front view. We were all having a lot of f...
- My dear friend Lynda, clowning around as she model...
- Measuring my "sample" that I decided to make large...
- The yellowish stuff is "header cord", used at the ...
- The back of the loom. Notice the "wires" in the lo...
- This is the front of the loom. Each warp thread is...
- Here is my loom, fully warped for this project and...
- Another view of the warping board. One lesson I le...
- This is how you measure your warp threads for weav...
- Playing Catch-up
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