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    Adventures In Natural Dyeing

    Last year, in the summer of 2017, I took my first foray into natural dyeing. I like the idea of natural dyeing – scrounging for stuff in my environment and using that to transform my wool and yarn into something different and unique is especially appealing, although the idea of using plant (or bug!) based dyes that I can’t necessarily…

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    Refurbishing An Antique Drum Carder

    So back in March, I just happened upon a local ad – a fibre artist selling her drum carder at a fantastic price. She had had designs to use it to start processing her own fleeces, but having never gotten the fleecey bug, it ended up sitting unused in her studio for about a decade. Oddly enough she had gotten…