{"id":2096,"date":"2019-11-22T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T12:47:14","slug":"merrie-dancers-toorie-handspun-hand-dyed-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2019\/11\/22\/merrie-dancers-toorie-handspun-hand-dyed-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrie Dancers Toorie &#8212; Handspun Hand-dyed (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9512-sm-1.jpg\" alt=\"2019 Merrie Dancers Toorie\" class=\"wp-image-2100\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yarn<\/strong>:&nbsp; Wheel-spun Shetland, mostly from a May 2018 workshop on natural dyeing<br><strong>Pattern<\/strong>: Merrie Dancers Toorie, by Elizabeth Johnston<br><strong>Completed<\/strong>: November 22, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This hat was actually a &#8220;homework assignment&#8221; from a workshop I did at Marshfield School of Weaving in May, 2018.  That was &#8220;Dyeing &amp; Spinning for Fair Isle Knitting&#8221; with Elizabeth Johnson and Martha Owen.  Elizabeth had designed this hat for the Shetland Wool Week festival that year, so it was a fitting assignment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the workshop, we dyed the pre-mordanted Shetland wool using a variety of natural dyes (logwood, cochineal, madder, osage orange), and we took home some of each of the dyed wool along with some natural (white, mid-grey, black).  Mmmmmm!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was really my first experience in working with wool straight off the sheep.  It took me a while (months) to figure out what I wanted to do with it:  scouring it, then combing it, and carding the leftovers from the comb.  I spun the combed fibre with a short forward draw to produce worsted wool (shiny and lustrous!).  I spun the carded wool long draw and made a woolen yarn.  I used the worsted yarn for this hat.  (Except for the cochineal, which was all carded and long draw).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the fun of dyeing &#8220;in the wool&#8221; is that you can mix and match colours like paint.  So, for this hat, I used 50\/50 logwood blue dyed wool and osage orange (without the iron rinse) to make the green yarn, for example.  And, I lightened up the madder by adding some white wool to the combs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literally, the possibilities are endless with this stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yarn:&nbsp; Wheel-spun Shetland, mostly from a May 2018 workshop on natural dyeingPattern: Merrie Dancers Toorie, by Elizabeth JohnstonCompleted: November 22, 2019. 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