Month: April 2015

This Month Jung Kang shared with us the pleasures of dyeing your yarn with food safe colors. Her presentation was wonderful light, carefree and full of information on natural dyes such as red onion skins, turmeric, koolaid, and food colors. If anyone has any questions, they can contact Jung on Ravelry under the username “yarnphreak”. Jung also shared some websites about dyeing yarn. http://www.pburch.net http://www.dyeyouryarn.com http://www.dharmatrading.com http://www.ravelry.com;groups/what-a-kool-way-to-dye

Purchase undyed skeins at any of the following http://www.knitpicks.com http://www.yarn.com
http://www.wool2dye4.com http://www.catnipyarns.com http://www.paradisefibers.com. http://www.littleknits.com

Next Month – Wendy from Shaggy Bear Farms will be talking to us about her dyeing journey and ice dyeing. She will also have some of her dyed yarns available for purchase.

Shirley has decided this is her last year as President. If you are interested please let us know. We would love to have you join our board now so you can get a feel for the job and we would love your input.

The 4th annual Fiber/Knitting retreat will be May 1st-4th. If you didn’t sign up this year and are interested, let Donnaa know fromdonna2u@comcast.net we can get you on the list for next year. We will let you know all about it at the next Guild meeting.

This Month Joy Dally from Shepherd’s Lane informed us on the process of repopulating critical sheep such as the Tesswater, Wensleydale and Gotland sheep. It is an amazing process. Joy also brought some yarn, woving and sheep pelts which were amazing to see and handle. Here is a link to their website, if anyone cares to visit them but I suggest you call ahead as they may be making house calls. http://www.oregonwool.com/

Next Month – Jung Kang will be with us to talk about food safe dyeing and also natural ingredients, such as oinions, beets, etc. She will also have some base yarns at a discount so we can try our hand at dyeing.

Take a look at the tabs at the top here.  We have added one just for the coastal knitting shops.  So stop in next time you are out at the coast.  Pick up a little something to remind you of your great trip.