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Month: August 2023

  • Spinning (freeform) with (quilt batting) ‘fleece’

    (re-post from Sept 9 2009)

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    This polyester batting –

    IMG_0305– is being playfully spun into yarn –

    IMG_0309-  and wound into skeins  –

    IMG_0314– and dyed with acrylic paints.

    IMG_0311Previous experimenting with this dyeing process led to these small samples.  I am pleased and motivated. 

    IMG_0316Here is today's yarn rinsed and having some dibs and dabs of more paint added to it. 

    The "dibs and dabs" aspect of it is exciting both in the process and the result. 

    IMG_0319Now it is drying in the sun and the wind. 

    It may remain like this – but now I am wondering how it would respond to having some darker brown (that's red and black mixed, right?) splattered or sprinkled on it…….