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Friday, May 30, 2008

What About The Recipe

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For a brief period when I started to dye I kept recipes and used recipes or formulas if you'd rather, when I dyed. For two reasons I no ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Hungry for Colour

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This evening I was doing a "down on my knees" hunt for a book I wanted to reference for someone special today but I couldn't g...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Rearranging Resources

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Well, it has been a few days since I had breathing room to even think about blogging. We can all thank Mary Anne Wise most heartily for taki...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Does Cheddar need to be on everything ?

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Yes my friends, here it does. That answered I must say this is a beautiful place we are in. We had bit of a mishap with our booked room, bu...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Day 2

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We are tired bunnies. We went to bed too late, we got up too early and we ended the day driving thru Chicago. It was pretty downtown. It was...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

I am on a Lonely Road and I'm Travelling Travelling Travelling

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Well, not so lonely as I 'm travelling with my daughter Thea After a few narrow misses of nearly forgotten passport and missing night we...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Old Recipe - New Method

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Daughters of Darkness Yesterday I needed dark yellow and blue greens, VERY DARK. I had every available element and outlet occupied. I decid...

Insipration

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I have had several days, perhaps it's weeks now, of intensive dyeing. Two things come to mind. #1 It's damn hard to think of colours...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Dyed Nylons Today

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Wow ! I've even impressed myself, I dyed over 50 lbs of nylons today. My feet are killing me though.... One beautiful combo use the equ...
Monday, April 14, 2008

I Love Reds

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Yes I admit I love hooking with red, what a change from my 20s. When we moved into a house with a bowling alley length living room with a re...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

OHCG Annual Show Midland Ontario Canada

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Winner of Last year's Theme Award "Blossom Time " in Belleville And the Day came I wanted to let you I'm going to be in at...

Tornado Sky

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Last year I dyed an interesting sky using the following method I wrote in RHM. If the colours represented don’t suit you, being a little on...

Dyeing Reds

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Yesterday I was dyeing a bevy of beautiful reds for RHM. I was surprised to note the rising of my blood pressure and a mild anger forming. H...
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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Getting Organized

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Sometimes it takes quite a bit to get organized but once you do the steps you are on maintenance. I hired someone to keep me on top of task...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Redwood

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Today while out walking I saw a curious colour in a stream bed. This brook travels downhill and each step had a orangish glow on the edge. R...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Hints for dyeing

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Save electricity and don't fill your cup up to the top. 1 CBW ( cup of boiling water) is overkill. When dissolving your dye particles in...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Use of Yarn Sample

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Believe it or not I used the yarn shown to create strands of hair in my rug precious. Where it turned blue and light brown it looks like li...

Yarn Dyeing

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I love having hand dyed yarn on hand. Of course to hook or bind with but also to knit. I look for yarn that is not white (meaning a lighte...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Impediments

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We all have things that will keep us from what we do best. Recently I purchased a new battery for my laptop. I didn't realize how much I...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Thinking about possibilities

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This morning I was surprised to follow my monkey mind train of thoughts and realize I was thinking about what if questions. I usually don...
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Wanda
Wiarton, On, Canada
I created The Welcome Mat and author the dyeing column in RHM for rug hookers to find new ways to bloom in the garden of life. Seed, bloom, withered stalk, I"ll tend them all!
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