Dying Rovings & Hand Spun Yarn
I’ve started selling some of my hand spun yarn at Wise Daughters in the Junction. One of the difficult things about hand spun is that when you often start with 4 ounces of dyed fiber, which only gives you a skein of yarn. If people want to do bigger projects with multiple skeins they’re often SOL.
One of the things I’m starting to branch out into is dying my own rovings. It means that I can dye 8+ ounces at a time. Even though it won’t spin up with the exact same colour repeats, it will at least still be within the same range. I picked up some roasting pans, just to use for dying. I started playing around with some while we were up at the cottage last time.
There’s something beautiful about seeing rovings drying over the line out in nature.
We also had a meeting last night about ways to help promote my hand spun yarn. I’m scheming away and will be working in the background to get some information, swatches, patterns, and resources put together.
Do you have any suggestions?
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I think simple patterns are often best for showcasing the color-shifts in handspun yarn. You could have a few open source patterns available that use the amount of yarn your providing sort-of as a project idea.
Or,
Perhaps having some simple items made with your handspun(these may also be for sale) would help?
I’m thinking the first two
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