Spinning and Dyeing

This last Saturday I started a Spinning and dyeing class. It's from 9 am to 4:30 pm every Saturday to August 1st, with 4th of July off.

Our first class was a bit over whelming but was fun. We had our introduction then we started spinning on drop spindles and mordanting some 100% wool yarn.

The mordants we used where copper, tin, alum and iron. We won't get to use the 5th mordant, chrome, for a week or two.

Our text books are Start Spinning: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn by Maggie Casey and Natural Dyeing by Jackie Crook. I like the dyeing book, only glanced at the spinning book.

We also have an optional book, The Craft of Natural Dyeing: Glowing Colours from the Plant World by Jenny Dean. I skimmed through it during class and it looked like a pretty good book.

More on the class next week.