natural dyeing day with japanese visitors

 Recently I spent the day At Nandroya Studio with a group of Japanese visiting craft ladies. Joy had prepared a workshop on natural dyes from Tasmania. We used native cherry with  three different mordents. These were alum, copper and iron.

 Joy had even created a wonderful sample card . It was a great day and a lot was learnt by everyone. Joy has such fantastic knowledge about dyes and weaving and is a fantastic host and teacher.

a little more fibre in the diet.

This is the "Good Dye Day" I went to on good friday. What better way to kick off the easter break than with a bit of dyeing at tasknitters place. There were colours amany, some unmentioned people may have a little stash that would indicate a dye addiction. So many great colours and so many different ways of dyeing.

This purple is the lates of my many shades of purple I tried out while dyeing raw fleece. I am really happy with the way the colour takes to raw fleece. Now I will have to spin that up before I can start on the new dyed roving I have just made.

This one worked really well. I used food colouring and was really happy with the brightness of the colours. Who would have thought that the humble food colouring could be so great. I am still waiting for my others to dry so stay tuned for the other colours.

Beware dyeing will also become an obsession for tasknitter.