I had a bit of time sans kids and husband, so I knocked out quite a few colors.  Same procedure as before, one small spoonful of dye powder to 4 cups of water and 1/4 cup of vinegar, 6 yard skeins, pulled every 5 minutes.  The russet, emerald, and turquoise were opaque at the start […]

Ok, so after struggling with the very small dye powder weights and thinking that I was going to need to get and analytical scale to be able to do small dye lots… I found this wonderful site http://www.gfwsheep.com/rov.inst/rov.inst.html.  There they suggest making up concentrated batches in gallon containers and diluting from there… Duh!  Only one […]

It’s spring and nature is spreading color all over the place (mostly green pollen all over my car).  Since Spring Break is here, and a little bit of extra time with it, I thought I’d do my part to help.  Last week I prepped ahead and ordered 10 Jacquard Acid Dyes from Sheepish Creations at […]