More madder dye. This turned out so much better than my first tries!!! I'm hoping that pre dying the thread like this could be much easier to work with in the future. I closely tracked the temperatures this time instead of estimating, seems to help.
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More madder dye. This turned out so much better than my first tries!!! I'm hoping that pre dying the thread like this could be much easier to work with in the future. I closely tracked the temperatures this time instead of estimating, seems to help.
"But if my vices are a burden, please don't let me off..."
I finally finished the scarf I've been working on. I haven't knit much in a while, in fact, the last thing I finished before this was a particular "raspberry beret" back in July! But I've been wanting for quite some time to have a scarf dyed with the madder root (it must be obvious why after I wrote a book called The Line Madder and all, my writing truly does inspire some other fascinations). So I ordered some madder dyed wool and modified a pattern I found to make this! This is my first time using the lacing technique at the ends, and I'm impressed with how it turned, out, I really improved the lacing as I went. I'm rather pleased to have a scarf now made with my favourite natural dye, and something to connect back to my favourite of my books even when I can't have the book itself with me. I know I post usually solely about my writing and art involving it on here, but knitting is a new one for this account and I'll probably be dropping off more of it here in the future! After all, showcasing mostly only my writing stuff would be quite limiting in what I can share...
Disappointed with all the knots. Not an optimal result but I salvaged things as best I could. I'll have to figure out a way to stop this in future tries.
I think I've gotta break down and buy some madder dye. If I don't get to play with this stuff myself i might combust and growing it myself to the point of the roots giving dye seems unlikely, considering last year I couldn't get the seeds to germinate for more than a couple of hours and this year there's something growing in that same pot that I hope and pray is madder and but it's only small yet
All our natural dyes and fabrics are from sustainable sources, grown locally and indigenous to the area. We supply a number of natural dyes
Madder dye
All our natural dyes and fabrics are from sustainable sources, grown locally and indigenous to the area. We supply a number of natural dyes like madder, indigo, buckthorn, weld and many other dyes. Our fabrics are suitable to make nice dresses, garments and many other things.
【東方Chillout/Piano】 Madder Dye 「Buta-Otome」 ☆ミ Title: あかねいろ (Meaning "Madder Dye".) ☆ミ Album: Touhou Keyboard Cat 5 「東方猫鍵盤5」 ☆ミ Circle: Buta-Otome 「豚乙女」 ★彡 Original Title: 芥川龍之介の河童 ~ Candid Friend (Meaning "Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend".) / Stage 3 Boss - Nitori Kawashiro's Theme ★彡 Source: 東方風神録 ~ Mountain of Faith (Touhou Fuujinroku, meaning "Eastern Wind God Chronicles".) ♬♪♫ ミ Arrangement: Paprika 「パプリカ」 ♬♪♫ ミ Original Composer: ZUN 「上海アリス幻樂団」 ✧彡 Event: Comic Market 82 「Comiket 82 (C82)」 ✧彡 Release Date: Aug 11, 2012 ✧彡 Website: http://butaotome.web.fc2.com/neko5_to... ✧彡 Album Genre: Chillout, Piano, Ambient&R&B — Touhou Instrumental Arrange Album. ✿彡 Picture Artist: Akino Sora 「あきのそら」 / Pixiv id=26848 ✿彡 Source: http://e-shuushuu.net/image/318791/ ✿彡 Character: Kawashiro Nitori 「河城にとり」