Yesterday I had such a great day with some marvelous people. The owner of my favorite fiber store, (Three Wishes) Kristine hosted a Natural Dyeing Class with fiber artist Carolyn. (www.greenwoodfiberworks.etsy.com). What a blast, although I was totally overwhelmed by all the information, my processing chip must be getting rusty, dusty, and disjointed. I should have thought about it before hand and done a bit of educational reading, but I really didn’t know what to read. I’ve been busy, doing my other 101 hobbies and interests, plus getting ready for a visit from the Duchess, and the arrival of “W”, oh and the Queen Mother. Is that enough excuses? Yes I thought so. Well anyway back to this great class. We discussed mordants and dyes. We made natural reds and almost purple. Purple is a hard color to produce vibrantly. For instance when I rinsed my wool and the color went down the drain. Drats! We boiled and stirred wool over cauldrons of fire and I felt like one of the 3 witches. CACKLE! CACKLE! CACKLE! Suits me I know. It was great. I met some very fun new friends. Melinda, who volunteers at “This Is The Place or Pioneer Heritage Park” where she spins every Thur and on many different wheels (Jealous all you spinners?) Katy (who happens to be Carolyns’ favorite sister) is a great mother who won sweepstakes at the fair for her knitting, and Kat a special ed teacher and her son.
