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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  • 23.07.23

    Crafting yesterday was predictably chaotic with the middle small neighbour child. We are making an extremely large floor cushion (which will hopefully use up the equally large bag of stuff I bought to fill it with) and so there is a lot of straight-seam sewing which can lead to boredom, impatience and a need for…

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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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