I Can Spin a Rainbow!

It’s been a slow week here in terms of creativity and getting much done! But I did manage to get a rainbow spun!

I was given some alpaca fleece a while ago and have been slowly working my way through it. You can see some more here.

alpaca fleece box of — Alpaca fleece straight off the animal. This is what I’m working my way through!

I dye small batches at a time in a slow cooker using Landscape dyes. I found some left over dye already mixed – a blue and a yellow. I decided to throw them in to see what happens, then added a red to make a rainbow! Because the dye had been sitting mixed up for a very long time, I had limited expectations on how it would turn out. Apparently Landscape dyes last amazingly well mixed! The colours are still super vibrant!

slow cooker dyeing — I use a slow cooker to dye my wool, silk and nylon fibres and yarns. It sits on top of my washing machine.

cooking a rainbow of alpaca fleece — The rainbow cooking

Once it was dyed and dried, I spent some time carding it. I was nervous at this point, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to maintain the integrity of the rainbow. But I managed to card it with a nice transition between colours!