The Wool Clinic

  • 25.07.23

    The magnolia dye has come out of the dye bath and its a green/khaki sort of colour. Not necessarily one of my favorite dyes but certainly not just beige. I didn’t put extra beads in this dye bath because I assumed there wouldn’t have been enough colour but I think actually some of them would…

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  • 24.07.23

    Back to the Real Job today again. A day full of half-hour calls which drive me mad because there is barely any time to do anything in between, like grab a drink or knit a sock…. I started knitting stripey socks with the walnut-dyed yarn, but I had the mad idea of knitting spiral socks…

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  • 22.07.23

    The walnut dye samples were drying this morning and showed a beautiful range of chesnut browns with more variation in colour than I expected for such a dark dye. I spend an hour or so this morning winding them up into mini skeins and sewing them into place and adding labels. This is probably my…

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  • 21.07.23

    After some debate, aka the realisation that I had no more drying space left, I did end up leaving the yarn in the walnut dye bath for most of the rest of day three. I took it out before dinner, rinsed it out and it’s now drying on the rack. I also modified some of…

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  • 20.07.23

    First point of call this morning was to check on the walnut dye. Mostly because the Gardener had left a cup of ginger tea next to it for me. It’s looking lovely and dark already, especially the iron-mordanted skein. I was originally going to leave it in the slow cooker for at least 3 days…

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  • 19.07.23

    This morning Cat1 had no intention of letting me get up. After I had been away for the weekend she was very offended with me and was insistent that I stay in bed all day to cuddle her. She didn’t get her way, although there was a compromise and I had a later start to…

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