While most things done “naturally” are considered safe, dyeing naturally is one that can quickly get into questionable and unsafe territory. If you stick to the basic ingredients for dyes, mordants and modifiers, you’ll be fine. For those who have problems with heavy metals or will be draining dye water into a septic tank, theContinue reading “Natural Dyeing at Home”
Category Archives: fiber processing
How to Store Finished Makes
If you’re like me, and I’ll bet many of you are, you have closets, dressers and chests full of finished items. But is that the best way to store them? What about displaying them or keeping them in handy reach during the cold season? I’m going to share what I do for these situations andContinue reading “How to Store Finished Makes”
Executing a Project Successfully
How many times have you been so excited to start a new project? I know I have. Especially when I just bought a new book, downloaded a pattern or received some great new yarn. That bug hits when I go stash diving for another skein for a current project and I have to exercise someContinue reading “Executing a Project Successfully”
Wool from NMSU!
I live about a half of a mile from New Mexico State University (NMSU). In the three years that I’ve been living in Las Cruces, I have met some of the professors on campus and now my daughter attends there. Two of the professors that I know work in the Agricultural (Ag) department. One hasContinue reading “Wool from NMSU!”
Mixing Fiber
This is a post about mixing fibers, I don’t mean wool with cotton for example, I’m talking about mixing different colors of fiber to create a new color of fiber. It is amazing to me how this happens. It makes more sense to me to mix red paint with blue paint and get purple paint,Continue reading “Mixing Fiber”