Back In November I attended an afternoon of yarn dyeing with Shellabooki our hand dyeing extraordinaire along with other ladies from our knitting circles that Furrywithruffle organised at the lovely Teddy Tree shop in Mt Hawthorn who were kind enough to let us use their class room space for the afternoon. It was a really informative fun afternoon with lots learnt on the art of hand dyeing protein fibres that resulted in successful dyeing as you can see from all the photos below.
Lets begin by removing excess water from our yarn that has been soaking in water and vinegar for awhile. For this session we dyed our yarns using food colouring as it's readily available and safe.
Dyeing of our yarn commences by mixing up our dyes and then painting them on our yarn.
SusanPerth has nearly finished painting her multi coloured vibrant skein.
1morerow adding the finishing touches to her nearly solid grey skein before warping it up in the plastic ready to microwave to set the dye.
Shellabooki adding the final touches to her semi solid purple/pink skein before wrapping it up ready for microwaving.
Yarn is now cooling off after being microwaved.
Furrywithruffle's yarn bundle ready to be taken home and unwrapped, rinsed and hang up to dry.
More details and some photos of all the dried yarn can be found here on ravelry. Also there are some more photos over at Flickr here.
A HUGE thank you to Shellabooki for conducting this workshop and to Furrywithruffle for the co-ordinating and organising this workshop.
Lovely site!! Appreciate how you showcase your friends' gorgeous pieces.
Question: When you refer to "protein" fibres, does that mean just uncolored, untreated wool yarn? And, would you mind sharing more info on the food dyes, soaking time, how long in the micro, etc.? Thanks!!
Posted by: dana | 20 January 2010 at 05:54 AM