Hooker's Green to Kalahari

Wonderful day dyeing Saturday. It is so much more fun when you have friends around you and you are all engaged in similar activities. So with the help of my friends I dyed 500 grams of BFL Rovings and a skein of BFL Superweash Sock Wool - not bad for one day!

Inspiration - well I had intended to let the dyes lead me but I had admired S's Terry's Chocolate Orange (can't find the link at the mo) which used Kemtex Mocha and Burnt Orange and her Kalahari Sunset so this was the first combination that I tried on Saturday - but I used a Kemtex Charcoal, not Helen Deighan's Charcoal For some reason this particular dye will not set. This is the third attempt at using this dye colour and no matter what I do all I get is a very pale insipid nothing. Love Pink, Hate Peach used this grey.

Here is the result I got using Tumeric and Red plus my charcoal - not at all what I was expecting. But not unpleasant... more insipid.....
















The rest of the day I just let the colours lead and the results are here drying on the line




















The BFL skein was left to last - named by Mr S 'Delia' - used the space dyeing technique S demonstrated in February - I just love the way the colours have blended.















Mr S is offering a set of my handmade stitch markers to anyone who can work out why he called this 'Delia'.


So really please with the way the holiday stash is growing, the question is what do I spin where? We have now sorted out the details of the 'Tour' and booked the sites so it is beginning to become a reality, not a dream. We have been planning this ever since we were told that Mr S needed heart surgery last August, it gave us something to hold on to when the going got tough. Tomorrow we see the specialist for a final consultation - so closure of one episode of our lives and the beginning of the next.............