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| 2009-09-08 21:28 |
| working working working |
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Whew, I haven't posted in a while. BUT, I finished my principal dyeing for this coming weekend, so I'm posting pictures of some of what I'm bringing. This is all new stuff that hasn't hit my shop yet. I dyed the worsted weight in August, and the sock yarn is all from the past week. *collapses in a heap*
March Hare: 100g skeins of light worsted weight superwash merino.
Top two rows- Jackrabbit 4oz: 114g skeins of fingering weight superwash merino
Bottom row- Jackalope: 100g skeins of nylon/superwash merino blend
The skeins sort of hanging out on the side are slightly underweight (really, they're exactly *at* weight), so I've pulled them for making sample cards. But I'm thinking of knitting up something to wear out of the black as it's kind of odd going to a show, needing a sweater, and not having anything in my own yarn to wear!
Everything in the shop is going, too, and I've got all the Jackrabbit 6oz and another 9sk of the Jackrabbit 4oz which are still too wet to photograph. It's more than 40sk of yarn more that's drying, so it's a pile of yarn.
Tomorrow I'm dyeing up some odds and ends, and then I have to do things like inventory and such. OMG I can't believe the festival is so close. It's a tiny little festival by all accounts, but I hope to do well at it. *crosses fingers*
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| 2009-04-16 15:44 |
| a sunny day for pictures |
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This is the recent dye job, in bright sunlight which isn't always the best, especially with such lustrous silk, but I still think it gives the clearest idea of the colors. So anyway....
A line up. It's Habu N14 100% tassar silk (tussah), 2ply laceweight. It's lovely stuff. A little stiff still after the dyeing, but not as stiff as when I was reeling it. It softens up beautifully on handling. Bit staticky working with the stuff once it dried.
( beauty shots )
I really like working with silk. No matter what I do to it, it's gorgeous! :D Also, no worries about felting, etc. But it takes a lot of dye to get intense DOS, and it often took leaving the fiber in the pot overnight to cool for the dye bath to exhaust completely. Since I like to dye repeatedly in the same bath with different colors, that complicates matters and everything takes longer. Still, I like all of them.
The ones going up will be listed in my etsy shop tomorrow.
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