Wicked
Thursday, February 16th, 2006Isn’t it wonderful how you can be wicked tired, barely able to drive down Highway 1 without falling asleep, and then perk right up just talking about dyeing. Then actual dyeing causes you to go hyperactive… But who wouldn’t be all excited about this:
Last night in spinning/dyeing class we dyed up some raw Romney — I dropped in about 3/4 tsp of CIBA dye powder and the pot didn’t exhaust. There was about 12 oz of raw fleece and we calculated the dye powder at 1 tsp per pound — I guess we were so excited about putting colour on wool, we forgot a couple things: raw fleece is heavier than clean fleece (hence too much dye powder) and greasy fleece resists the dye (hence too much dye powder). But here it is — a wicked indigo, moody blues kind of colour — washed in Dawn and dried, kind of teased, and ready for carding. I think we are making boucle with this next week.
Wicked Carding
In other whoa technology kind of news, take a look at what a bunch of local girls have done to their Pat Green Beverly carder… How smart is that?! Maybe I should have called these girls before I went and bought my drum carder!
