Hey. The lessening sunlight at the end of the day is really messing with me. I get home from work, I'm tired, I need to unwind for a bit. Of course, by the time I'm ready to blog, the sun's gone down which means zero chance of getting decent pictures. Gah! I'm not ready for summer to be over.
I've done a little spindle spinning, done some drum carding but nothing very exciting. I guess I'm in a bit of an end-of-summer funk. I mean, heck, September is this weekend for cripe's sake? Speaking of this weekend, I'm driving to my sister's in PA on Friday. I promise to take pictures. I'm bringing some spinning, some embroidery and a sewing pattern to work on. The pattern is a knitting bag that I'll be making out of linen (you gotta love Joann coupons!) and lining with quilting fabric. If I'm careful, I might be able to eke two bags out of that yard of fabric.
I'm eager to try dyeing with the instant indigo. I've ordered some shirts from Dharma Trading Co. that should arrive next week. Then I'll need to get a pot that will be dedicated just to indigo dyeing. I'm not sure why but once you use anything for indigo dyeing, you can't use it for anything else, including acid dyes. I'll have to see if I have a pot I can spare for the cause. Either that or I'll be heading out to Salvation Army and seeing if they have something I can use.
Some of the drumcarding I've been doing is white wool of various breeds that I'll spin for natural dyeing. I've got some madder and some osage orange that I want to play with and I still have that cochineal from last year to play with. The wool I carded tonight was some wonderful Corriedale from New Zealand. It was beautiful and much softer than domestic Corriedale. I bought it at the Spinning Loft and I want more. It's really beautiful stuff. I'm still undecided on what I'll do with the finished, dyed yarn. I've wanted for a long time to knit one of those cuff to cuff sweaters out of a rainbow of colors. I'll get to play with over-dyeing with the natural dyes. I really need to find a way to not need to work because I have more project I want to do than I'll ever have time to complete. I'll work on that.
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