Announcement: On Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) – we will be having you link your store, Etsy or otherwise, to Fiber Arts Friday. While I love promoting your blogs, I know there are many fiber artists who don’t blog. This will give them a chance to participate in Fiber Arts Friday, and for us [...]
Last weekend at SAFF I took two classes on dyeing. It fascinates me how many ways you can dye things. Different people use different methods. Some use acid dyes, while others use plants, Easter egg dyes, or food coloring. Some use kettle dyeing, others use steam, a crockpot, or a microwave to activate the color [...]
This week I’ve been dyeing alpaca yarn and fiber using Fall colors. Since we live in the South, summers are our most challenging season on the farm. This makes Autumn my favorite season. It brings such a welcome relief from the seemingly endless hot, humid days.
What better way to revel in the season than creating [...]
This week I found this fun video on dyeing. Hope you like it!
Loved this video, and loved that she used alpaca fiber!
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This was my first foray into dyeing yarn with professional acid dyes. First we got out all the equipment: Dye, pots for dyeing, mask, citric acid, spoon, and yarn.
This is what the yarn looked like a’ natural.
First we wet the yarn, then put it in the dyepots. These pots had water, dye, and citric acid [...]
So I’m having a dilemma. I’ve come to a crossroads.
My goal this year is to work the Fiber side of my alpaca business. To that end, I have tried new things. I have begun to knit again. I’ve learned to dye my fiber and yarn, and I’ve even tried Spinning. The idea was to try [...]
This Friday I will be getting a crash course in the Fiber Arts! My guest this weekend is Sheri Watkins from Loudon, TN. Sheri and her husband, Bill, own and operate Frostglen Alpacas. They have been alpaca breeders for 20 years!
Sheri is teaching a Beginning Spinning class here at our farm, Fairhope Alpacas, tomorrow. I [...]
It’s the dirty little secret most Alpaca Breeders have. It’s the thing about us that Fiber Artists just can’t understand.
We have closets, barns, rooms full of fleece. Just sitting there. It’s not that we don’t appreciate it, it’s just that – for some of us – there’s not enough time to do much with it. [...]
Once the kids got finished dyeing their eggs…
I decided to dye some alpaca yarn. The dye was too tempting, I couldn’t just dump it out!
Set out to dry. I was pleased with the results!
Time for Cupcakes!
My Five Artists on Easter Sunday. We cleaned up and made it to church
(not an easy feat for us). Yea! [...]
This week’s spotlight fiber art is Hand Dyeing. This farmgirl is new to dyeing, so I thought I would try it out with some alpaca yarn that I already had mill spun. I started with Easter Egg Dye and instructions from this video over at Blonde Chicken Boutique.
Here is the yarn in the jar that [...]
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