tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80155831006863305572024-03-14T06:30:27.955+10:00Wooltopia - Feast of colourswooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-13762959353093823532012-12-22T21:52:00.002+10:002012-12-22T21:52:34.912+10:00The winners of our Xmas giveaways are......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Congrats Ebony and Angela!! </b>Hope this sweetens your Xmas a bit more!! I have also drawn the lady who can choose first which skein she wants and it was<b> Ebony</b>!<br />
I will contact you both tomorrow or you can also pm me on here or FB!<br />
Thanks for participating in these giveaways and for the lovely comments !<br />
Hope you all have a lovely Xmas with your loved ones!! Cordu xxwooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-52628025629532723142012-12-21T18:42:00.002+10:002012-12-21T18:43:06.542+10:00Xmas giveaways Because of FB policies I need to change the giveaways to my blog. Could you please post here if you want to go in the draw to win one of the Silk/Merino blends. Thanks so much! :)<br />
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<br />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-53668133142482986002012-05-24T16:54:00.001+10:002012-05-24T16:54:30.886+10:00Back again....Gosh it has been long log ago since I last posted ,,,so many things have happened.<br />
I start with the most important part ,Miss Wooltopia who is now 9 months has joined our family. Kudos to her that new colourways are most of the time girly and that I can knit gorgeous girly garments for her!<br />
We have moved to the outback of NSW in the home of black opal Lightning Ridge where we want to pursue our dream of finding the elusive red on black. Life is is interesting here.........never boring<br />
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So far we have no water problems so I can always dye and rinse my wool :)<br />
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<br />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-9775704697650486172011-06-28T16:24:00.001+10:002011-06-28T16:24:04.327+10:00We can do bigger dye lots!!<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5879559787/" title="100pureWOOL-choc-berry-skie"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5264/5879559787_b8c1d2c323.jpg" alt="100pureWOOL-choc-berry-skie by funknitter" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5879559787/">100pureWOOL-choc-berry-skie</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>This one is 400 gm of the same colourway handpainted on 3 Ply Worsted 100PureWOOL. This wool is just amazing, you have to be careful how to handle it while dyeing rinsing as it is really soft and delicate, but I really love knitting it. especially for my newborn knits. No wonder that 30 more skeins are coming my way from a 100PureWOOl co-op :)</p>wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-68307734788352392072011-06-14T16:41:00.001+10:002011-06-14T16:41:12.927+10:00First Gradient Club<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5831337911/" title="surprise-gradient-colourway"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2549/5831337911_3559f066dd.jpg" alt="surprise-gradient-colourway by funknitter" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5831337911/">surprise-gradient-colourway</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>I am so excited !!<br />I am launching tonight my first gradient club at 8 pm QLD (Eastern Australian Standard Time)<br />I have created a beautful girly colourway not quite a rainbow as I left out some colours.<br />I can't show a picture with real colours just a teaser pics as it is a surprise colourway!;)<br />Hope my clubers will love this colourways as much as I do !! Especially on Licorice Twist it looks especially nice. Gonna knit my baking bubba girl a beautiful Tikki rainbow dress!</p>wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-44063408333100954792011-05-29T17:28:00.001+10:002011-05-29T17:28:55.895+10:00Socks that rock!!<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5770270959/" title="Happy-Rainbow-4-Ply-Sock-fu"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5266/5770270959_9ec65d4883.jpg" alt="Happy-Rainbow-4-Ply-Sock-fu by funknitter" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5770270959/">Happy-Rainbow-4-Ply-Sock-fu</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>I have dyed up some Happy Rainbow yarn for socks which hopefully will create a beautiful pair of socks for toasty warm feet. Each listing will be for 2 balls of 50 gm of the same rainbow gradient ending either in blue or green</p>wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-85593628377119561232011-04-11T20:46:00.001+10:002011-04-11T20:46:31.642+10:00Rainbows, rainbows rainbows...<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5609033351/" title="Happy-Rainbows-Silky-Merino"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5063/5609033351_2118e912b0.jpg" alt="Happy-Rainbows-Silky-Merino by funknitter" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5609033351/">Happy-Rainbows-Silky-Merino</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>I have dyed the first time lots of gradients in the same dye pot. *Phew*<br />I was a bit nervous as they are the first for the LYS (Local Yarn Store- Yarn Over in Brisbane) on 4 Ply Silky/Merino in the Happy Rainbow Colourway which is a girly rainbow . Very happy how they have turned out!! ;)<br /><br /><br />http://www.yarnover.com.au/</p>wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-12599614629688293942011-04-03T21:40:00.002+10:002011-04-05T19:58:18.949+10:00WOOLganic stocking<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0.8em; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><a title="WOOLganic-April-stocking" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5584644762/"><img alt="WOOLganic-April-stocking by funknitter" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5052/5584644762_3be305cf8d.jpg" /></a> <span style="MARGIN: 0px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5584644762/">WOOLganic-April-stocking</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a> on Flickr.</span></div><br /><p>After a quite long break of very little dyeing I have my mojo and parts of my energy back to create some new and some of my old favourite colourways! This time I had so much fun to dye the first time on 12 WOOLganic which is just such a plump, scrumptious yarn. I have not done any boys colourways this time as we are expecting a bubba girl in August and I am just thinking girly or gender neutral colours at the moment...;) Stocking will be Aprl 5, 8 pm (Easter Australian Standard Time)</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.wooltopia.com.au/category.php?SC=6">http://www.wooltopia.com.au/category.php?SC=6</a></p>wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-39336497594783608702011-02-22T14:21:00.001+10:002011-02-22T14:21:50.395+10:00Cotton Semi-Solids<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5467404416/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5054/5467404416_03f4ffc6c3_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5467404416/">Cotton-Semi-Solids</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>I asked in my wooltopia rav group what would be the preferences for my new Organic Cotton and I saw that Semi Solids were wanted so I decided to create some bold semi solids in aqua, purple/pink and electric blue!<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-61135956145140578752011-02-22T14:16:00.001+10:002011-02-22T14:16:44.448+10:00Organic Gradient Cottons :)<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5467404412/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5467404412_110df592e0_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5467404412/">Organic-Gradient-Cottons</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>I have dusted my dye pots after a long break and that's what I came up with this last week. I wanted to dye cotton gradients for such a long time and was really itchy creating some.These are dyed on my new Worsted Organic Cotton colour ranging from purple /pink into salmon peach into buttery yellow, flowing into lime green into blue tones<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-75535576461301012142011-01-31T15:35:00.001+10:002011-01-31T15:35:50.222+10:00New Logo & new home!<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5403815544/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5098/5403815544_ac998eeb64_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5403815544/">banner</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>One week ago I was told that Yarn Collective would be closing down. I panicked a bit and decided that I want my own domain name for my independent store. I looked into it and decided to go with congocart as my shopping cart as I am familiar with the system. We are now found under http://www.wooltopia.com.au.<br /><br />We will have more changes this year!!Stay tuned!!<br /><br />Our beautifuln new logo was created by the very talented Sam from Cherry Fresh Art- http://web.me.com/sam_cr/Site/Welcome.html<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-64421194400935166742010-12-21T22:25:00.001+10:002010-12-21T22:25:42.362+10:00Blackberry on Cotton/Bamboo<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279117880/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5166/5279117880_9c4b36d007_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279117880/">Blackberry-pale-trim-Cotton</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>A customer asked me for a variegated colourway of my Blackberry Gradient, so I created this one which was handpainted in the shade varying from from pale pink into darker pink, bright raspberry into the dark purples. I really love ihow it has turned out especially as it was handpainted on my oh so yummy soft Worsted Cotton /Bamboo!! :)<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-7911061530383688072010-12-21T22:21:00.001+10:002010-12-21T22:21:14.388+10:00Organic Eden's Adam<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279586609/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5247/5279586609_2577414345_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279586609/">Eden-Adam-deck</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>This is my Organic Turquoise Gradient knitted up into an Eden's Adam.(from the talented lovely pattern designer rav id tikki)<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-24515713919234826912010-12-21T22:13:00.001+10:002010-12-21T22:13:18.218+10:00First Gradient on Worsted Organic Cotton!!<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279589473/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5279589473_6f62ef10ce_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279589473/">Green-Blue-Gradient-Organic</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>I thought this would be the first yarn of my life which would be undyeable. I really was fighting at the start of the gradient to get some colours on this yarn! I didn't give in and create a beautiful boy gradual gradient in turquoise-blue tones.:) The yarn took eventually the dye beautifully just needs lots of dyes and was not really bleeding a lot when rinsed. Have knitted it already up in an Eden's adam for my DS.It is not splitty even not when I had to restart my garment which was at first try far too big.<br /><br />The Cotton is quite soft and has brown specks throughout the yarn which is not a quality problem, it just shows the husks and seeds of the cotton which are not bleached in organic cottons. The specks are not really noticable in the knitted garment! THe Organic Cotton will be my regular Worsted cotton as I prefer it to the 10 Ply Worsted Cotton which I have usually which is Peaches and Cream! I can source it from my LYS (Local Yarn Store) which will also stock my gradients in Organic Cotton and 4 PLy Kiama (Silk/Merino)! :)<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-86098936047923514442010-12-21T21:54:00.001+10:002010-12-21T21:54:30.441+10:00A lovely Cottton haul!<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279115658/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5169/5279115658_a6630cc95c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5279115658/">lovely-cotton-haul-2</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>This was just one customer order of lovely summer knitting yarns.It is not very common that I have so many lovely colourways in stock at the same time and some are new colourways so that was best photo opportunity!! Just love the yummy Worsted Cottton Bamboo and also my NEW Worsted Organic Cotton has dyed up lovely!<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-3031871941568686362010-12-02T15:44:00.001+10:002010-12-02T15:44:51.407+10:00Mosaic Element Scarf<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5224969810/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5224969810_31c1997f79_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5224969810/">Mosaic-Element-Scarf</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>My Elements mosaic scarf is done and I am loving it. I had maybe 3 cm of the blue yarn left and I was sweating the last rows if it will be enough. I am loving this colourway. It is good for people for love rainbow colours but don't want it too bright.It is nice and subtle.<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-46036261505393063272010-11-29T17:42:00.001+10:002010-11-29T17:42:44.084+10:00Peach Pink Purple Sorbets<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5217377264/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5217377264_00d569843e_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5217377264/">Semi-Solid-Gradient-8-Ply-C</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>Another cotton gradient finally balled up and already sold again. :)<br />They seem to turn out a bit semi solid, cotton dyeing is really a tricky business and especially the gradients seem to have a life by itself.<br />I'll have to dye some more over the next week...<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-51120495110854184192010-11-17T18:18:00.001+10:002010-11-17T18:18:27.235+10:00Colours everywhere.....<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5183505983/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1304/5183505983_23862074ec_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5183505983/">Collage-Nov-dye-ups</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>I love the variety I am dyeing these days. It never gets boring and most of them are customs so what else can I wish for! Sometimes I don't have enough time to dye a gradient as they are so time consuming so I can just hand paint my cotton or cotton/bamboo blends and let them sit in the sun for a day or two. Love solar dyeing it is soo easy...<br />Kudos to my grea customers that I am a happy indie dyer at the moment...colours always around me...wouldn't have thought that colours would be once so important for me..nothing worse than a grey day...<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-73508236389319502972010-11-15T23:17:00.001+10:002010-11-15T23:17:12.779+10:00Cotton-Bamboo Oasis<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5177185632/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5177185632_fb9699cae2_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5177185632/">Oasis-Cotton-Bamboo</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>Looking again for a name and showing a friend on MSN a photo of it, she asked me if this was Oasis,\which is a colourway I had only dyed yet on wool, I looked for this colourway in my flickr pictures, and saw that it used the same colour combos just a different kind of blue so decided that this will be the version with fibre reactive dyes on cotton or cotton/blends.<br />I really love this yummy worsted cotton/bamboo yarn.....<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-69389973020356544162010-11-15T23:10:00.001+10:002010-11-15T23:10:26.736+10:00Pink Unicorn<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5177185636/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5177185636_6e4fa28fbc_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5177185636/">PInk-Unicorn-Cotton-Bamboo</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>I am not good with naming my colourways,I must admit.<br />When I showed a friend this picture of my new colourway which was a custom for my best and lovely customer who wanted lots of pink in a colourway she suggested unicorn. I was thinking immediately of "The last unicorn" and looked for images but only saw blue ones. Then I goggled pink unicorn images and I found a clipart of one which looked fairly similar to that colourway so it gots its name...easy ;)<br /><br />http://www.clipartof.com/details/clipart/39227.html<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-67294536579405610632010-11-09T09:31:00.001+10:002010-11-09T09:31:05.909+10:00Colour Wheel<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5159081093/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1405/5159081093_41f51d1227_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5159081093/">color-wheel-green-shades</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>That's why I love dyeing. I just adore colours and mixing them to create other shades...<br />I wanted to test my new Worsted Kona Superwash how it takes the dyes and also wanted to give my favourite dyes Greener Shades a good work out.<br />These colours pick you up an a grey day , they are so vibrant and you just need use such a tiny amount for each colour.I am planning to use them more and more..as they are better for the environmet and for the dyer as they use almost no heavy metals in their dyes except the turqoiuse...<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-86524138825445316742010-11-07T20:55:00.001+10:002010-11-07T20:55:59.074+10:00Happy rainbows go American- So stoked!!<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5153050615/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/5153050615_7343cfcb44_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5153050615/">Bellingen-Happy-Rainbow</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>well not quite that far, although I do have customers in the US and Canada...<br />The Happy Rainbows gradient will be stocked at American Yarns in Brisbane.Ohhh I was reallyl nervous when I went on Friday to talk business but it really went well... the lovely Gabrielle will be stocking them on my yummy scrummy 4 Ply Silk/Merino and if the cotton dyeing god will because cotton gradient are really tricky....on the new Worsted Organic Cotton<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-10926168242169636112010-11-07T18:35:00.001+10:002010-11-07T18:35:45.176+10:00A little gradient goes a long way...<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5153309412/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/5153309412_87b1992692_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5153309412/">Mosaic-Scarf-WIP</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>I had just dyed up a small ball to try out a new colourway..an earth rainbow gradient which I called Elements and I wanted to knit a swatch to see how it knits up...<br />On my search I found this beautiful mosaic scarf pattern from <br /><br />http://www.skacelknitting.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.51616/.f<br /><br /> and I knew exactly that I wanted to knit it up with my tiny 50 gm ball of gradient..<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-70131567308215661982010-11-03T17:02:00.001+10:002010-11-03T17:02:22.143+10:00Summer Gradients are coming.....<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5141711633/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5141711633_532f2b072a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5141711633/">8-Ply-Cotton--Peach--Pink-G</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div>I wanted to test my gradient dyeing technique on Cotton yarn for a loooooooooooong time but just have no time as I am so busy dyeing all these customs up.<br /><br />Last week I was asked by a LYS (Local Yarn Store) if she could stock my gradients in her store to sell.<br /><br />I am thrilled by this opportunity to maybe get some more fame lol and maybe a new customer base.<br /><br />She asked especially about cotton ones so I did a quick test up on 8 Ply Cotton, It is a bit paler as I wanted it to be but still really pretty....<br /><br />I will dye the cotton gradient on yummy Worsted Organic Cotton....can't wait ....<br clear="all" />wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015583100686330557.post-59050971875555799452010-10-27T15:25:00.001+10:002010-10-27T15:35:49.006+10:00The elements<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXAKO4jD1zE/TMe5TJnNswI/AAAAAAAAACw/XeClvSbHCfY/s1600/Elements-Ball-5-Ply.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532594405896991490" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXAKO4jD1zE/TMe5TJnNswI/AAAAAAAAACw/XeClvSbHCfY/s200/Elements-Ball-5-Ply.jpg" /></a><br /><div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; FLOAT: right; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px"><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5118893493/"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5118893493_be8187767b_m.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;font-size:0;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28179732@N02/5118893493/">earth-rainbow</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/28179732@N02/">funknitter</a></span></div><br /><p>I had another colourway in mind, but my dyes had something else in mind and created an earthy rainbow. colourway....my gradients develop their own dynamics and that is the fun of creating them.. sometimes you never know what you come up with..like this a new colourway was born :</p><p>Elements Fire Water Sky and Earth...;)</p><br /><p></p><br /><p><br clear="all"></p><br /><p></p>wooltopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257125163964843890noreply@blogger.com0