A few things have caught my interest and have been keeping me busy. Over the summer I bought half of a cormo fleece when we went to lambtown. I finally finished washing and spinning the stinky brown fleece that I bought in San Diego (oh… I might not have mentioned it, pictures below) so I am free to work on this lovely coated cormo mmmm… But it is a white fleece and as lovely as it is I had to see how it would take color. I had some locks that didn’t come out as clean from scouring as I would have liked so I gave them a quick wash and set to dying them. Magic people, I tell you dyeing is magic! Next time I wash fleece I’m going to take pictures of each step and then go straight from the scour to the dyepot! The cormo is spinning up like buttah and the colors are making wonderful combinations on the handcards ( teal, slate, coral and grass green!) all from cherry, yellow and blueberry.
the stinky brown fleece
the new cormo fleece
the dyed up locks
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Next time I hope to have pictures of the spun up dyed locks and documentation of my crazy dirty fleece to neon lock process (and maybe some slightly more suble color, we’ll see)
November 25, 2008 at 3:40 pm
She blogs!! Can’t get the pictures load, so sad. Just remember N lurks your blog.
December 3, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Querida Lauren, what a great blog! I especially like the color swatches. So may I ask for a pair of slippers, make my wardrobe complete? Abrazos Lolo