This post is a bit of a mixed bag. I've just been playing with my spinning and dying.
I've created a few accidental boucle yarns, but this was my first intentional one.
Cotton is one of my favourite fibres to spin. While there are a lot of people dying other fibers, it is really difficult to find hand dyed cotton sliver. I had a lot of problems the first time I tried to dye cotton sliver. The dye would not penetrate and I ended up really compacting it. Luckily, you don't have to worry about felting and I didn't mind carding the cotton into punis. This time I was way more successful. While the sliver still looks a bit messy, it isn't compacted.
There was dye left over so I dyed some bamboo.
Happy crafting.
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| Ashford Merino/Silk, core yarn: Black 2/120 Silk thread |
Cotton is one of my favourite fibres to spin. While there are a lot of people dying other fibers, it is really difficult to find hand dyed cotton sliver. I had a lot of problems the first time I tried to dye cotton sliver. The dye would not penetrate and I ended up really compacting it. Luckily, you don't have to worry about felting and I didn't mind carding the cotton into punis. This time I was way more successful. While the sliver still looks a bit messy, it isn't compacted.
There was dye left over so I dyed some bamboo.
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