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I waited until about 7 pm last night to start dyeing. (I was a good girl first and did more housework than I care to admit before I started on the dyeing.) I mixed up some more dye, mixing colors to create new shades and then got to work. Last night I decided to dye alpaca. I had some beige/brown and some grey/black alpaca. Or alpaca/merino blend. I can’t remember now since it’s from last year.

Anyway, at SAFF I took a dye class with Phylleri Ball (who is AWESOME) of Steam Valley Fiber Farm and she showed us some rovings and yarn that were naturally colored and then dyed. It made for gorgeous and I wanted to give it a try.

Letting the roving rest while the pot was working on creating some steam. I didn’t even think about taking pictures while I was dyeing the roving, but that’s mostly because I don’t have a tripod. B is good at many things, but photography is not one of them.

A watched pot will not boil, but it will produce a lot of steam. Good thing that’s all I needed. This is my thrift store find. I paid less than $8 for the pot and the “strainer.” Score!

Steam, baby, steam! Twenty minute steam bath and then into another colander to sit in the sink while they cool down before rinsing the excess dye out of the roving.Pictures of the roving will come once its dry.

So up until last night, all my dye supplies were just clumped together on the dining room table. I finally changed that and used two different plastic containers to consolidate it all into one place. I’m pretty pleased with my ingenuity, if I do say so myself. (Click to make bigger.)

This got me to wondering about other dyers’ stash. How do you store your dye paraphernalia?

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