tie dye t-shirts

The shirts were a lot of fun to do and I think they turned out rather nice :)

Homemade woolpicker

                                         I made this with my good friend Lammert M.
                                      Well, to be fair, he actually did most of the work :)

 And a lovely job he did too.

                                                         Thank you so much Lammert!!!

Wool projects .

Dyed with cochenille

Dyed roving, done with acid dye from a local firm

This was the first time I tried acid dye.

Up untill now I have always used plants and mordants but I don't 

want to mess with H2SO4 to do the indigo blue.

Not too friendly for the environment and when I did dye that way  in my younger years I burned my hands on the stuff.

Did not like that much :(

This was very simple.

Make a dye/water/vinegar solution and " knot" the roofing a little, stick it in a pan and boil it for a while.

Et Voila 

new woolies :)

These lovely little fellows came fresh from, first dye pot then drum carder, spinning wheel and wool winder.

I think they are pretty nice :)

Spinning, dyeing, knitting.