Sunday - Some dyeing, some sewing

Today is set out to be a prep day, I have the Estuary Skirt pattern all printed out and ready to tape together. Couldn't find tape anywhere in the house and my usual postal supply cupboard (my Dad!) had none either.. so I have ordered some online to arrive later today after which I will be spending a happy hour watching some BBC Glastonbury stuff and cutting and sticking my pages together.

Yesterday I learnt how to do a new thing. I'm so pleased that I have to share. I dyed this wool top all by myself and I'm really proud of it.

It is natural oatmeal coloured Blue Faced Leicester and I was going for navy and rust... LOL! That did not happen in the pot. BUT - I am loving how it came out anyway, it's very autumnal. There's teal, sky blue, forest green, sage green, rust, ochre colours. My Husband says it reminds him of the rock pools in Cornwall. High praise indeed. Honestly, it's amazing and I cannot believe I actually did it myself. By some miracle it didn't felt at all and is still super soft, I really want to spin it but I still want to look at it. I'm so torn.

 All my information has come from a combo of Youtube and this book. It has literally answered every question I had about dyeing and I feel like I have the confidence to do it again, but better-er! I got hold of a little acid dye kit from George Weil which seems to have a good amount of dye powders in it along with some other bits like syringes.

I have put some neppy bits in some bright orange dye and I'm thinking to card them into my new braid but I'll wait and see how they come out first before I commit to that. Definitely been on a spinning tangent this week!

Had a lot of fun though.