Hand-dyed Yarn And Fiber | The Year of Seeing Red

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The Year of Seeing Red

Oct 24, 2020
1 min

Throwing shades(s)

Shades are primary colors mixed with various percentages of black. In this series of yarns, I've mixed a basic, bright red with black, in...

Oct 21, 2020
1 min

I ask you...

Would you ever in a million years wear these two colors together? Although, now that I'm thinking about it, I did have a dress in the...

Oct 21, 2020
1 min

I told you I was obsessed with data

This is the approach I'm using for the tapestry line of yarn. This is a group of tints, meaning that I start first with a color formula...

Oct 19, 2020
2 min

Back to work!

I am back to dyeing but I'm realizing that the switch to Lanaset dyes meant going back to square one. The Lanaset line consists of a very...

SEEING RED

What do those words mean to you? Alarming, intense, exotic, glowing, raging, warm, passionate, powerful, heated, romantic, revolutionary, ideological — there are so many ways to look at red beyond its visual manifestations. I am using red as a focus of my fiberarts work in 2020, with the emphasis on a daily practice of creating a palette of of colors for hand-dyed yarn and fiber. You can also find me at pocketmeadowfarm, discontinued designer yarns, and my etsy shop. Check out my work in the short blog posts below.

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