Growing Colour Tyfu Lliw

This is both about growing colour quite literally as plants in my garden and also about using them. I dye fibres with natural dyes and use them to "paint" with. This is how I make my landscapes , mostly of the North Wales countryside Mae Tyfu Lliw yn enw addas iawn i'r 'blog' yma. Yr wyf yn cael hwyl yn tyfu bob math o flodau i Helen i'w defnyddio. Mae hi yn creu lluniau bendigedig, mae y lliwiau yn hollol naturiol, ac felly'n gweithio'n dda iawn yn rhoi lliw credadwy o'r wlad o'm cwmpas

Thursday, 20 January 2011

A small Success with the Mohair Art Yarn

I rang up my friend Anne who has been mentioned on this blog more than once. and had a bit of a whinge. "I can't seem to get on top of these new yarns I want to spin" I said full of misery and moans -talk about the January blues. "I think" said Anne, expert spinner and generally a wonderful crafts woman "that you need to concentrate on one and practice till you get it right" So I went round to visit and practised and came home and did a bit more and here is a lovely white mohair yarn on a fabulous mohair and silk core yarn. yum It reminds me of snow and ice
Now the challenge is how to describe it to Online Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers for whom I running a workshop in the rear future

And
snowdrops
are just starting to appear

and now I am feeling a bit better

7 comments:

Nina23 January 2011 at 20:35
Oh, how wonderful to have snowdrops coming up already. Today the high temperature is -15 and tonight they have forecast -23! Brrr, it will be a while yet before we can even think of something as lovely as a cheery snowdrop.
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Helen23 January 2011 at 21:40
Ooh that is cold! Yes it's nice to live in a temperate climate except when it is grey and wet! Keep warm
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Woolly Bits2 February 2011 at 23:58
I think our winter is over (at least I hope so!) - but the snowdrops cheered me no end today with their nodding heads in the strong wind.... one of the flowers that can improve even the darkest mood - together with daffodils!
and the yarn really does look frosty and cold - but I bet it feels soft and warm?:))
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Helen3 February 2011 at 09:14
I saw my first crocuses yesterday!But remembering last year I am not being too quick saying that winter is over! Hope your tooth is improving.
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Shani12 February 2011 at 21:00
I can't wait to see the descriptions.. a very large success I would have described it as...
Best wishes Shani
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Helen14 February 2011 at 13:43
Thanks Shani :)
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wooldancer16 February 2011 at 07:17
gorgeous!!
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