tropical japan

okinawa's gorgeous textile crafts

have a good weekend

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rip van winkle

in order to learn and develop skills in a yarn craft you need to burn yarn.use yarn with abandon and then spend time undoing all those ill fitting sweaters, failed projects and full size samples. if not you'll never learn. been spending more time undoing and rewinding than doing lately. with a couple of surprise will be able to recoup one or two  projects now that i have become a bit more skilled.

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the quest for madder red

chugging along dyeing the japanese way. more time consuming,but colors develop nicely and with a certain depth.

getting orangier. will i ever be able to get red? everyone else does, but on wool. silk is a different animal so to speak.

dulling a light value skein with some copper and a tiny bit of iron.

need to try that for purples, i was advised.

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