Kettle Dyeing!
This weekend I tried kettle dyeing roving for the first time. It was so much fun and I learned a lot from my first trials. I was familiar with the basics going into it, and I’d previously tried painting rovings, with decent results. I consulted a few online tutorials, primarily this one from Earthwhisper Fiber Arts. The most important advice I got from reading this was to add each color separately, letting each one exhaust into the fiber before adding the next. Reading that was a bit of an “Aha” moment for me because I’d always wondered how you can use multiple colors in the same pot without them mixing into a brown soup!
I have to say, I prefer this method of dyeing to painting. It requires much less space and overall I think it’s quicker. My blue in the first roving (pictured above) separated into its 2 parts during the dye process, resulting in some pink that was not planned… But that’s okay. It was a really good learning experience. I dyed 2 rovings, both SW Merino. I plan to spin them up so I can get an idea of how they’ll look, how they’ll rinse, etc.
Roving #1 – blue, green, pink, purple and gold with lots of white
Roving #2 – greens, browns, gold and yellow/orange
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I could tell how much efforts you’ve taken on it.
Keep doing!