Roving Reporter: My Madrona Spinning Fiber Finds
Even with just a few quick passes through the marketplace, I came home buzzing with ideas and an armload of inspiring spinning fiber.
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Even with just a few quick passes through the marketplace, I came home buzzing with ideas and an armload of inspiring spinning fiber.
Oh, the places an inquisitive mind can take you! The latest issue of Spin Off, Summer 2018, includes two essays on the unexpected colors available from natural dyes by Interweave’s founder Linda Ligon.
The scenery in Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico, is a study in tan, but the color I remember most vividly from my visit is red. The bold scarlet of cochineal insects, one of the world’s most important natural dyes, colors the rugs for which the village near
I was standing in Maggie Casey’s shop,Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins, when she handed me a braid of hand-dyed wool with a tag that read “The Hummingbird Moon.” I gave her a skeptical look.
Deb Menz has been one of my most important color resources for more than a decade. I took a three-day dyeing workshop with her that laid the groundwork for my own understanding of color in fiber arts.
When I visited Shetland several years ago, I met one of its most famous handspinners.
The Pantone Color of the Year 2018, Ultra Violet, takes a new look at an ancient color. Purple has been a royal color for thousands of years, and once it was derived from a mollusk.
Solar dyeing is an easy, natural, and fun way to give yarn color and character that requires little work and results in non-repeatable, beautiful colors!
Connecting Threads allows visitors to experience the process of turning a sheep’s fleece into a piece of clothing through a natural dye workshop.
Felicia Lo, author of Dyeing to Spin & Knit, demonstrates how to spin yarn like a master dyer in this Artist Q&A with Anne Merrow.
If fiber is your thing, a yearly pilgrimage to the local sheep and wool festival is a must! Attending the festival with limited funds?
If you know someone interested in exploring spinning or you find yourself circling the idea, Kate’s 2 courses with us can help anyone get started.