Colour my world

Here are the results of the dyeing adventures at spinning class today...these are all dyed with Landscape protein dyes, using the slather in dye, wrap in glad wrap, steam in a ziplock bag method.

My yarn, the colours are a little deeper than this but you get the idea



Some merino top...which is really a nice jade/malachite semi solid...a colour my camera refuses to photograph well



Some Finn/Corriedale fleece...this is getting close to felted maybe...will have to see what happens when it's dry and I can flick it.



Hopefully it's okay because I'll be interested to see how it spins up.

And some more fleece and ditto.



I managed not to dye myself, so go me! We also tried spinning suri alpaca (in locks...HARD plus the locks look spookily like human hair so it was hard not to feel you'd mugged some poor brunette and shaved her head), bamboo top/carded (ditto), kid mohair (pretty and nice to spin so it's a pity that mohair makes me itchy), cotton (well, Jo was brave enough to try that and the verdict was WORSE THAN THE ALPACA) then some of the other sort of alpaca which was do-able. After all that, it was kind of nice to go back to spinning some nice coated Finn/Suffolk fleece which I've mostly got the hang of. Yay for wool!

Next week is our last week where we shall attempt silk! Should be fun.