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| Flower Shop Inferno dyed in a gradient on wool/silk. The braid reviewed by Knity was not a gradient. Most of my fibers can be done in to a gradient style by special request. |
Hand dyed yarns, spinning fibers (roving), fabric, ribbon and felt.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Knittyspin!
THANK YOU to KnittySpin reviewers for the great review! I will have
more Flower Shop Inferno and superwash cheviot fiber in stock on Monday.
I didn't think the review would be posted until later, so I'm a little low on stock right now. Oops! In the meantime, I will try to list what I have in stock over the next
few days.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Green With Indie
Oh goodness. Today was a very long day. Like 15 hours long. Maybe longer, but it's ok. I'm all ready for Green With Indie this Saturday and my feet are up for the first time in days (weeks?).
Can you even see that tiny shoebox all the way at the bottom of the pile on the right in this terrible picture? That little box took EIGHT hours to process. Blame the silk ribbon. Did I even ever mention that started dyeing my own silk ribbon and am carrying Cam Creations ribbon? I've been selling it online by the yard, but never did I consider how the heck I would display that. So I cut out eighty bajillion little cards and wound 3 yards of ribbon on to each one.
It took about 7 hours to deal with the 3 other small boxes, make signs, to pack the red bag of show survival and gather and pack the booth displays up. The 3 big purple bins and the 2 small blue bins? They only took 1 hour total to process and price. Yeah, yarn? It's bulky and I kind of love the sense of accomplishment it gave me today.
I hope if you are local to St. Louis that you can make it to Green With Indie in Webster Groves on Saturday. If you like Strange Folk, you will like this show. Most of the vendors at GWI are also SF vendors. Plus for you knitters and spinners, there are three dyers there. Me and two others. There will be a lot of fiber options!
I'm bringing:
Can you even see that tiny shoebox all the way at the bottom of the pile on the right in this terrible picture? That little box took EIGHT hours to process. Blame the silk ribbon. Did I even ever mention that started dyeing my own silk ribbon and am carrying Cam Creations ribbon? I've been selling it online by the yard, but never did I consider how the heck I would display that. So I cut out eighty bajillion little cards and wound 3 yards of ribbon on to each one.
It took about 7 hours to deal with the 3 other small boxes, make signs, to pack the red bag of show survival and gather and pack the booth displays up. The 3 big purple bins and the 2 small blue bins? They only took 1 hour total to process and price. Yeah, yarn? It's bulky and I kind of love the sense of accomplishment it gave me today.
I hope if you are local to St. Louis that you can make it to Green With Indie in Webster Groves on Saturday. If you like Strange Folk, you will like this show. Most of the vendors at GWI are also SF vendors. Plus for you knitters and spinners, there are three dyers there. Me and two others. There will be a lot of fiber options!
I'm bringing:
- dyed locks
- embellishments for felting and spinning
- Almost Felt (pre-felt)
- needle felting kits
- felting fiber
- hand dyed fabric
- Marilin's reversible project bags
- handmade bias tape (under the brand Sulky Cat Creations, a new joint venture between Dyeabolical and Marilin's Bags)
- hand painted silk bias ribbon and hand dyed silk embroidery ribbon
- and as always, yarn and spinning fiber
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Rethinking clubs
Hello blog world! It feels like forever since we've had a proper conversation. I'm working on preparing for my first show of the season, Green With Indie in Webster Groves, MO and I've been diligently working on a few wholesale orders and club shipments. I will be so happy when next week I have a chance to sit down with my blog reader and catch up with all of you.
The other thing on my mind this week is the yarn and fiber club. It is about time to start signups for the sock club, but I am thinking of changing the way I do clubs altogether. I am hoping I can get your input. I've started a thread on Ravelry. http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/dyeabolical/topics/2056691 I would love to hear what you have to say.
In return for your thoughts, I give you this frightening image of my husband wearing his co-workers viking hat. I'm told that I will be making a similar viking hat for Scott, although perhaps with blonde braids. As my dear friend Ann says, "yeesh".
The other thing on my mind this week is the yarn and fiber club. It is about time to start signups for the sock club, but I am thinking of changing the way I do clubs altogether. I am hoping I can get your input. I've started a thread on Ravelry. http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/dyeabolical/topics/2056691 I would love to hear what you have to say.
In return for your thoughts, I give you this frightening image of my husband wearing his co-workers viking hat. I'm told that I will be making a similar viking hat for Scott, although perhaps with blonde braids. As my dear friend Ann says, "yeesh".
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Leap Day Sale
15% Off
Use coupon code "LEAP12" for 15% off any purchase from Dyeabolical through Feb 29
Click link to go to the shop. Enter the coupon code at checkout.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Crimptacular
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| I really love the way BFL looks before I package it up. This bfl is mixed with firestar sparkle. |
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| The crimp is so wavy and charming. |
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| I think I need to test spin 2 or 3 braids in the name of quality control... |
Friday, February 17, 2012
Almost Felt
I love days like today. I woke up 2 hours earlier than my alarm because I was so excited to start my day. I got up, walked in to the kitchen, fed the howlers and started warming up my big pot of water. Today I'm dyeing felt! Or, almost felt.
Some of you may have noticed that I'm branching out a little bit beyond spinning fibers and dyed yarns. I've started dyeing fabric, my mom and I are working on launching our own line of bias tape (so you don't have to make it yourself), I'm carrying angelina sparkle/flash for carding, I sell Soak wash, I've toyed with dyeing silk ribbon, I brought in a line of hand dyed ribbons not dyed by me, and today? Today I am working on a new product that I'm calling Almost Felt.
Almost Felt is basically my version of pre-felt. Pre-felt is a huge sheet of loose wool (merino for me) fibers that have been needle felted just enough to hold together. It is not unlike wool batting. It isn't quite sturdy enough (yet) to call it fabric, but it doesn't fall apart when you manipulate it, either. I am taking these huge sheets of wool, cutting them down and dyeing them. Some of them will be left as pre-felt, some I am lightly felting. Some will be kept in larger sheets, some will be cut down in to smaller pieces.
So what do you do with pre-felt? What can't you do with pre-felt? Pre-felt saves you a step and some time. Since it is already mostly felt, it just takes a little bit more manipulation to turn it in to felt. It is thin enough to still manipulate and strong enough to handle it.
Use it to felt soap. You can use it as a canvas for needle felting. You can nuno felt a scarf. You can cut petal shapes and make a flower. You can stretch it thin and needle sculpture a bird. You can make your own pieces of felt. You can felt it, cut it in to strips and rug hook with it. You can shape it and layer it around a hat form. You can sew it in to bags and then felt the bags. You can collage with it, cover journals and books with it, make dolls with it, felt it (or buy the lightly felted) and quilt with it.
I'm going to try really hard to persuade my crafty friends* to make me an octopus from the purple or green and a pin cushion from smaller pieces I'm dyeing today.
Smaller pieces of Almost Felt will be in the Etsy shop in the next few weeks. The larger pieces of Almost Felt and art felt will be in my booth at the Green With Indie show in Webster Groves, MO on March 10.
Some of you may have noticed that I'm branching out a little bit beyond spinning fibers and dyed yarns. I've started dyeing fabric, my mom and I are working on launching our own line of bias tape (so you don't have to make it yourself), I'm carrying angelina sparkle/flash for carding, I sell Soak wash, I've toyed with dyeing silk ribbon, I brought in a line of hand dyed ribbons not dyed by me, and today? Today I am working on a new product that I'm calling Almost Felt.
Almost Felt is basically my version of pre-felt. Pre-felt is a huge sheet of loose wool (merino for me) fibers that have been needle felted just enough to hold together. It is not unlike wool batting. It isn't quite sturdy enough (yet) to call it fabric, but it doesn't fall apart when you manipulate it, either. I am taking these huge sheets of wool, cutting them down and dyeing them. Some of them will be left as pre-felt, some I am lightly felting. Some will be kept in larger sheets, some will be cut down in to smaller pieces.
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| 3 sheets dyed yesterday. I don't think this picture even begins to do show how fun these pieces are |
Use it to felt soap. You can use it as a canvas for needle felting. You can nuno felt a scarf. You can cut petal shapes and make a flower. You can stretch it thin and needle sculpture a bird. You can make your own pieces of felt. You can felt it, cut it in to strips and rug hook with it. You can shape it and layer it around a hat form. You can sew it in to bags and then felt the bags. You can collage with it, cover journals and books with it, make dolls with it, felt it (or buy the lightly felted) and quilt with it.
I'm going to try really hard to persuade my crafty friends* to make me an octopus from the purple or green and a pin cushion from smaller pieces I'm dyeing today.
Smaller pieces of Almost Felt will be in the Etsy shop in the next few weeks. The larger pieces of Almost Felt and art felt will be in my booth at the Green With Indie show in Webster Groves, MO on March 10.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Valentines
Today I was feeling extra draggy so I decided to perk myself up with some dyeing just for me--red cotton handkerchiefs dyed using various shibori techniques.
The pictures aren't the best, but I'm so pleased with this first batch of handkerchiefs. I'm not sure how many handkerchiefs a single person needs, but I think I may end up with dozens.
The pictures aren't the best, but I'm so pleased with this first batch of handkerchiefs. I'm not sure how many handkerchiefs a single person needs, but I think I may end up with dozens.
I have so much fiber to dye this week, so I hope I'm not extra draggy tomorrow, too. If I am then I'm staying in bed with my brand new copy of the new edition of The Principles of Knitting. That would be the updated version of the Principles of Knitting that used to sell on eBay for $400. Now I know why. This thing has both physical and mental heft! It is about the same size as a Chemistry 101 book, except a much more comprehensible and entertaining read.
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