No such thing as too much wool

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

The future's tweed

My local Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers has an annual competition and this year the subject is a Bag. The deadline is November, but for the first few years I entered I took this to mean I started the project in November and finished it less than two weeks later. This year I have A Plan. It's a carpet bag from Vicki Square's Folk Bags, made in tweed Rowan in the original. So tweed spinning it is. I dyed some roving yellow and red on Sunday and started spinning it tonight. I've only recently started dyeing with acid dyes, and it's not that the colours are brighter than plant dyes, just have a wider range including pinks and purples. I think there are about a dozen colours in the bag so that's still plenty of more dyeing to do.

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