Before and After – Romney/Rambouillet fleece during cleaning Here’s a quick look at the Rambouillet/Romney fleece (in the last post, it’s the one that took up the whole table) before and after washing. I used a two-hour hot soak with an enzyme-free dish soap, followed by another hot soak without soap and then a final…
Category: fiber
A splash of colour
I’ve been showing you dribs and drabs of what I’ve been working on, but now I’m actually starting to put together some successful final results and the colours are just plain fun. So here’s a little Saturday night colour for you! The results of some of this week’s work:
If I could save time in a bottle……
But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do Once you find them. – Jim Croce I spent today in meetings and doing paperwork for the Craft Council. Since becoming Vice Chair (which entails attending both Executive and Board meetings) I appear to be spending an increasingly large…
Testing, testing…
The project in which I am currently engaged is that of dyeing and spinning fleece, roving and yarns and developing a coherent yarn and fibre product line. By “coherent” I mean products that are related to each other, seem like a unified group of products due to either materials, colour or even just labelling and…
Lurching
I firmly believe that one of the reasons that craftspeople have so many simultaneous projects (and textile artists are particularly guilty of this) is that they are actually ADD on some level and this is the way in which they manage their focussing abilities. I’m definitely a multi-project kind of person. I go through fits…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 