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Here is my costume this year - I went as myself - a wench! 馃槅 Happy #Halloween!
This is the cowl/hood I #HandDyed and crocheted this year. The dusty rose accent is #handspun. It is entirely made of #GulfCoast #wool off the backs of my sheep and is heavy and super warm!
Here is my costume this year - I went as myself - a wench! 馃槅 Happy #Halloween!
This is the cowl/hood I #HandDyed and crocheted this year. The dusty rose accent is #handspun. It is entirely made of #GulfCoast #wool off the backs of my sheep and is heavy and super warm!
Before and after dyeing this skein of #HandSpunYarn .
The yarn is 4-ply sport weight, 50% Wool 25% Alpaca 25% Satin Angora
Dyed with black walnut hulls #naturalDye . I boiled the hulls twice, then placed the bath in a shady spot and soaked the yarn for three days.
This was a test dye for a larger project. I love the color, but I'm not sure it's right for this project. I'll decide after knitting a test swatch.
Time to talk about my new combs!
In a previous post, I teased that I got some combs from Bam Fiber Works as an alternative to carding Oni the Tibetan Mastiff's long fur. I've been testing them out, and so far, it's bee really good!
But first: a bit of a clean. I took half of the darkest bin of fur (what remained after the original 7oz drum carding test) and split it into half, which I then put into a laundry bag and washed. By luck, my random selection on Amazon returned laundry bags that perfectly fit the cement mixing trough that I've been using for washing/fixing fiber already!
I gave the fiber a good soak with mild agitation, rinse, and then took the whole back outside to dry in the sun and breeze.
The result is... a bit more matted than I'd hoped. But it's salvageable. I can pull it apart into clumps, then load it onto the combs for standard combing passes before pulling off into a sliver. It smells nicer, albeit with still a strong doggy scent. I have yet to decide if washing is worth it...
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