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Our guild Dye Day often results in a wonderful variety of colors; these are sample skeins dyed with brazilwood, osage orange and logwood. |
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A Day’s Worth of Dyeing |
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These are a few of the things I’ve designed, mostly for myself. Some are in the process of being written into actual patterns. |
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This was one of the first sweaters I designed to work with naturally dyed yarns. It’s inspired by Hanne Falkenberg’s work. The stripes are random widths, separated by narrower stripes in a neutral color (dyed with alkanet). It is worked from cuff to center in two pieces which are grafted together at the center back. |
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This hand-spun (silk & merino) yarn was “rainbow dyed” using synthetic dyes. Each circle is slightly more than one inch in diameter, and there are approximately __ circles in total. Each is knit from the outside to the center, and then they were sewn together (and the ends woven in). |
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This, too, was made many years ago. The yarns were dyed using indigo and other materials to achieve various browns (walnuts, hickory nuts, sumac) modified using pre-mordants and after-mordants. It’s pictured in ___, a wonderful story by Marjory Johnson Wood. |
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The yarns for this sweater were dyed at a workshop I taught in California, hence the name. Using Poetry in Stitches, generally, as an inspiration, I swatched various two-color panels for a steeked cardigan. The workshop was in January and the sweater was completed the next May, amazingly. |
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Entrelac Vest |
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Penny Vest |
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Mitre Sweater |
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California Sweater |
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