It has been a long hot summer and spinning has been the last thing on my mind until my inbox reminded me that we were having a whole day indulging our passion for fleece, dyes, and getting back into fleece, sheep and woolly yarns.
Here are the gorgeous results of our whole day dyeing session where we spent a fun day stirring and squishing the fleece in big pots and watching the colors turn magically into something else. Some of the between colors were even more scrumptious than they intended colors. We started out with four colors and ended up with a myriad of shades. We were watched the whole time by a wee flock of Gotland sheep who surveyed us all every step of the way....... I wonder what they thought !
Check out this link to find out how to do it and scroll down to Eyecandy part
http://fibrenzy.blogspot.com/
As this blogger says it is a lot easier to do than to explain :)) but the gist is you start off with a greasy fleece and only 4 dyes and end up with a huge variety of shades and colors in between too. We used two fleeces as our spinning group will be making an afghan for the local Hospice and raffling it off.
Paradise Fibers has everything for Handspinning plus loads of luscious yarns, dyes and more
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