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Holiday
Today was the first full day having J & T staying with us. We planned to go to the beach even though it wasn’t very warm there. Silly me, forgetting how late teenagers get moving in the morning! After a late breakfast we left the house at 11:30.
It was busy in HB, as you can imagine on Memorial Day, but we’re used to lots of people around so it was fine and a nice afternoon out.
Now, at 5:30pm,…
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To Blog or Not to Blog
To Blog or Not to Blog
Hi. It’s me again. The post previous to this one is dated about 18 months ago, and life and situations have changed again. The web shop is on hold and I’m thinking maybe this blog should come off of hold.
The web shop is on hold because I’m saving my inventory for local markets. I’m not dyeing fiber like I used to. Since moving to the U.S., and now working 40+ hours a week, and commuting a crazy…
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Open!
As of RIGHT NOW, the new web shop is open. I’ve also redirected my domain name so that if you type in underdutchskies.com you will land on the shop, no longer here. I don’t know if I’ll be posting much on this blog in the near future. There will be shop updates on the FaceBook page and on the shop itself. As for my personal musings and crafty updates? I think for now they will be done on FB.…
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Best Laid Plans – Delayed I've been saying, out loud and in writing, that Under Dutch Skies web shop would open the 17th of January 2016.
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Sometimes what first seems like failure is not failure at all. Last night I tried to make make yarn from two small bobbins of spun singles, Shetland wool, and it was a disaster. The singles were so badly spun – uneven thickness, terribly under spun – and it just fell apart in my hands before I could twist the two together. I managed to get about 10 grams plied, and then I gave up and just…
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MidWinterWol 2015 Friday and Saturday, 11-12 December, 2015 was MidWinterWol in Winschoten. What a super event it was! (I'm moving most information and photos for UnderDutchSkies to the official FB page. Follow the link for more photos and info.)
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My patterns, hat, cowl, mittens, are up! They are published at Twist Collective and didn’t Twist do a great job with photos!? photo: ©Crissy Jarvis photo: ©Crissy Jarvis All the details are there in the pattern page, so I won’t repeat it here. Just today I finished a cowl in some hand dyed and hand spun yarn. The fiber is Blend A, soon to be available in the new web shop. Of course since it’s…
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Events!
Today is the Spin Day at Stephen & Penelope in Amsterdam. Everyone is welcome to come spin! It’s like Knit Night only this time we are spinning gorgeous fiber into our own yarn. Other events coming up for Under Dutch Skues….
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Pop Up Shop @ Stephen & Penelope
Pop Up Shop @ Stephen & Penelope
The announcement above says it all – come on down to Stephen & Penelope on the 7th or 8th of November and participate in Spin Days! I’ll be there all weekend with spinning fiber to sell and a couple of spinning wheels for you to try out. The very talented Christopher Kale will be giving spindle spinning lessons on Saturday. Myself, and a few others, will be there with different kinds of spinning…
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Official Face Book Page
Official Face Book Page
Come on over and LIKE my new Facebook page! I’m posting a photo a day. Come get your daily dose of fiber.
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Dyeing Days
There has been an explosion of color chez UDS. Above is 2kg of fiber dyed during one day. The day before I dyed 2kg of rainbows. I’m being very systematic about this – dyeing with only one method and one or two types of fiber in one day. Before dyeing I’ve pulled off 105g pieces to dye and soaked them overnight in water. I’ve also bought a small centrifuge machine to spin all the water out of…
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Cat out of the Bag
Cat out of the Bag
I might as well let the cat out of the bag (or, as the Dutch say, “now the monkey comes out of the sleeve”). Above is the logo image that will appear in the program for MidWinterWol 2015. Ta Da! Between now and 11 December I will be busy dyeing spinning wool to sell during MidWinterWol (along with keeping up my regular day job of course). This two day event, in the far north of the…
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Introducing Blend A
I’m very happy to introduce you to Blend A. On the left is the un-dyed fiber, worsted spun and 2-plied. The skein on the right was spun in the same way after dyeing in a succession of color from dark green, light green, yellow, orange and finally dark pink. What is the blend? BFL, Oatmeal BFL, Merino, Silk, Mohair. I love the shine and softness of this combination! Now that the yarn is…
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White is Boring and Other Experiments
Wednesday I finished with mordanting all the yarn and fabric for my workshop next week. Mordants are chemicals used to prepare materials for natural dyes. They change the chemical surface of materials so that they more readily accept dye and different chemicals are used for different materials – plant or protein fibers. So, since we’re going to dye both plant and protein fibers next week, I…
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Preparation
Today I’m scouring some cotton fabric in preparation for my natural dyeing workshop. Scouring is the first step in dyeing cotton fabrics no matter what type of dyes you’re planning to use. The purpose is to remove all the chemicals that the industrial textile process has left in them. Here is a photo of the pot just after adding the white fabric. Looks pretty white and clean, right? The rinse…
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Color Chemistry
The above yarns were all dyed from 200g of ground madder root and all started in the same pot. How did I get so many colors? This is the fun of dyeing with natural dyes – many colors depending on what else you throw into the pot.
The 2 skeins on the left plus the little ball at the bottom were treated to an ammonia rinse which turned them from reddish orange to pinkish orange. The skein on…
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Color by Numbers
There’s been a lot of dyeing going on chez UDS these days. I’ve decided to split up the news into a post about acid dyes and a post about natural dyes. First up, acid dyes!
I recently bought a small amount of Greener Shadesdyes to try out. I bought 10g of each of the 9 colors they sell, plus I bought the pdf download of their color book, which shows examples of dye percentage combinations at…
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