Yesterday I went to the dyeing workshop with Susan Gibbs of Martha's Vineyard/Hudson Valley Fiber Farms. I was joined by fellow dyeing student Jesse who is a graphic design instructor/artist. He was a lot of fun, really interesting and knew a lot about color so it was great to listen to him talk with Susan about mixing colors, and the different printing methods that use different color combinations. Susan is so knowledgeable and generous with what she knows. I love that she shares her successes, experiments, and failures all with equal enthusiasm. Since there were only two of us in the workshop, she encouraged us to experiment. Jesse mixed several dyes to obtain an amazing, bright, vibrant orange. I went with one dye, and came out with a lovely pumpkin orange. It was funny that we both picked orange. Susan had every color under the sun for us to choose from:
And as I already mentioned, we could mix dyes to see what else we could come up with!
My 5 skeins are on the right, Jesse's are on the left. Each skein is
400 yards so I went from planning a sport weight shawl to dreaming of
an awesome pumpkin sweater!
And this is a close-up of my future sweater! You can see Jesse's brightest skein, just there on the left.
Susan's table of yarn samples, and her skein winder, which I covet.
Solar dyeing, which I will be trying! (Ooo, and it rhymes!)
Some of her cool colors.
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