Wayhey, I'm dyeing wool again! My North Ronaldsay wool order finally arrived last month but I was a bit slow getting near it as I spent some time setting up a dedicated dyeing space, separate from my painting. I've spent just over a week in my new space and it's much more efficient, I love it.
Here are the first few batches to come out of my pots:
There are four 100g skeins of each colour available at the moment.
They're all North Ronaldsay 2ply pure wool, which works up like a
fingering weight/4ply.
Somewhat typically my
digital pocket scales broke as soon as I went to use them (to weigh out dye
powders) so I couldn't refer to any previous colour "recipes." As a
result these batches are one-off colour mixes, although I plan to
recreate them once I get new scales as I really like how they
turned out.
"wet sand"
"crashing waves, Hoxa"
"midsummer sunrise"
"blue Horizon, Hoxa"
"Sand O' Wright beach"
"Birsay shoreline"
"Warbeth rocks"
More colours to come soon! I also ordered some North Ronaldsay aran weight wool which I'm looking forward to dyeing.
Wow, those are gorgeous colour combinations. I think my favourite is Midsummer Sunrise, but I love the subtelty of Birsy shoreline.
ReplyDeleteThank you! At the moment I think my favourite is crashing waves, but that's likely because it was the most recent one to come out the dye pot!
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