In July we spent a day with
Margaret Redpath, gathering woad and preparing it to dye blue. You can see
the whole process here, including the magic moment when the yellow actually
turned blue. We also overdyed and achieved lovely green hues.
In May we visited the alpacas at
Folly Farm and spun their lovely fibres. This even made it into the papers,
read
here.
Our latest show & tell was a
real success, with a huge variety of spun, woven and dyed items.
In February Colin
Squire showed us what you can do on an inkle loom:
In our November
workshop we shared designs, ideas and patterns for scarves:
Sue showed us in October how to
dye rovings:
Our latest natural
dye workshop 'Colours for a Queen' with Margaret Redpath. Beautiful colours:
Working and airing the indigo:
Products using samples from previous workshops: Vickie's scarf and Joan's
bag:
Janet Shailes gave
us recently an inspiring workshop on what to do with long staple fleece:
Janet also gave us a fascinating talk on coloured and rare breed fleeces.
