Did anyone else read 'dying in the garden' ? When I received a tex from my friend Jenny saying 'come over on Wednesday afternoon, were dyeing in the garden'...just for one moment... But it's high summer and her cousin Jo is staying and they both like to cook up some colours in the garden.
I'm not sure whether I am ready to get messy with colours and fibre yet but I do have a new camera (a tiny Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ8) and it was the perfect afternoon for tea, chat and some snaps.
Apparently dyers do not usually share their secrets and so I have decided this post will be a lot shorter on words than usual and let the photographs (and my new camera) talk for me.
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yesterday's fibre drying in the sun |
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virgin BFL pre-soaking |
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dyes mixed and ready to go
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some silk (far right) some BFL and some spun (Monet's garden) |
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spun autumn
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and finally more garden colour inspiration
3 comments:
Some lovely colours there - I especially love the 'spun autumn' yarn.
Fantastic.... really beautiful colours..
Off to dig out my dye buckets.. :-)
hugs Shani
Very pretty :)
I've been dyeing in the garden too ... but given that I'm using natural dyes my colours are less vibrant.
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