Showing posts with label dye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dye. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2008

of sheep and paper

I've had a box of wool sitting in my home office now for at least 3 months, and I finally got around to dying about half of it last week:

Not that I spin, although I've tried my hand at it. Practice makes perfect, I know, but in the meantime, I'm a bit frustrated at how chunky and not-so-neat it turns out in the meantime. But the dying part of it is fun. And, of course, I keep forgetting to wear plastic gloves while I dye, so for the weekend I had purple fingers. Very gross, but I didn't mind.

I've also succumbed to collecting stamps again. Not for myself, but for others. I've an uncle who collects used stamps, although I'm not sure he does still any more. But, my MIL's brother does, and since she's going to Ireland next month to visit him, I thought I'd invest the next month or so to collect what I can for her, to give him. So far I've got stamps from the U.S. and Hong Kong. When I received my package of noro kureyon a while back, that envelope had Hong Kong stamps on it which I already gave her to send over, and she seemed very pleased with them. So, why not collect a few more? I figured that ones from Hong Kong may be harder to come across for her brother, so it'd be neat to have those to add to his collection.




Sunday, March 25, 2007

a handy online colour wheel

I first came across this http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/ from theanticraft.com blog ~ it is, though, a program that you pay for, but you can get away with seeing the colour schemes that other folks have been posting. It's quite awesome ~ and it's been a huge help in inspiring me to dye my yarns, among other things.

Plus, this past week in dying my yarns, I've discovered how to make the colour Olive: by mixing orange and green, 3:1. And brown is made by mixing red, green, and a little yellow, approx 4:4:1. (yay!)

Finding a free colour wheel is a bit hard online ~ I'm all about the free, but everyone wants to sell you something. So, the colorschemer site will have to do for now. It's a good start, and awesome inspiration nonetheless.