Weaving I have finished weaving the warp from Season 6 Episode 2 of Jane Stafford’s School of Weaving. I love the colours and patterns and once I get around the hemming them all I’m looking forward to using some of these tea towels in my kitchen. Weaving continues on the double weave warp on myContinue reading “April Part 2”
Category Archives: Dyeing
April – Part 1
The big news this month is that we have a new member of our whānau. Rufus is a Spangold Retriever, also known as an English Springer Spaniel – Golden Retriever cross. He is 10 weeks old and full of beans when he’s awake. Consequently weaving has taken a bit of a back seat since Rufus’Continue reading “April – Part 1”
The rest of March
This month I finished weaving a cotton warp that I started weaving in February. I dyed the warp after I had wound and chained it, which produced a tie-dye effect. The weft in the photo was a 20/2 cotton from DEA yarns. Now to decide what to make with it. I have also been continuingContinue reading “The rest of March”
More Dyeing With Plants
This summer I bought some Coreopsis Amulet seeds from Kings Seeds and grew a couple of dozen plants to dye with. I decided to try solar dyeing with some of the flowers as I haven’t used that method before. I mordanted some corriedale wool with alum and placed in a jar with water and someContinue reading “More Dyeing With Plants”
Dyeing with Harakeke seed pods
I have several harakeke (phormium tenax / New Zealand flax) bushes in my garden so I was excited to find out a few years ago that you could make a dye from the seed-pods and it is a fairly simple dye to make and use. Obviously the first step is to wait until the flowerContinue reading “Dyeing with Harakeke seed pods”
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