Color, color, color!
Mood:  on fire
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Sara Lamb was here this weekend. She arrived on Thursday evening, and we had a pizza party in her honor. Elizabeth from Rochester, Marcy, Deanna, Sara and I were here to eat pizza and discuss the latest on ST, SOAR, and the upcoming dye class. Elizabeth surprised me with a tasty box of chocolates from Hebert's (yummm!). On Friday morning, Sara and I went up to the club, and everyone was already there (we had to make a side trip to Walmart to buy stock pots for the dyeing, which I get to keep). The main goal of this 2 day class was to make a massive dye workbook, filled with samples of wool and silk, and paper samples which show how the colors would look on cotton and rayon. If you go over to Claudia's blog and read her entry for October 1st, you'll see samples of the dyed wet yarns. We managed to make up over 350 samples on Friday alone. Far more than Sara thought we'd get through, since we had an 8 person class (Hi to Roberta, Linda, Leigh, Charlene, Claudia, Diane, Elizabeth!).

Yesterday was devoted to getting those samples onto cards for each participant, and doing the paper samples. Three class members started on the paper samples, while the rest of us did up the yarn samples. We actually finished all samples by 3 p.m, and were able to dye some fibers for an hour. These are my finished yarns and rovings, which I have drying on the woodstove fence this morning.



L-R: WFB Corriedale roving from Maybe, IAGARB yarn (65% angora, 30% merino and 5% silk), Border Leicester handspun, Polwarth roving, and 100% angora roving

I now have over 650 dye samples, which will really help get me going on dyeing for Bay Colony Farm's inventory for the fiber shows.

And here is a picture of the lovely hostess gift I received from Sara on Friday morning. She made me promise that I would use this dishtowel (like I had to!). The picture doesn't do it justice!



Sara did leave here this morning to get down to SOAR in the Poconos. I wish that I were able to join her and the rest of the Thrillers attending, but it just wasn't meant to be. But I had a wonderful time in class and outside of class this weekend. Sara truly is a wonderful person, and I'm looking forward to having her back sometime to teach the knotted pile class.

More pictures from the class will be on the blog soon, as Claudia has promised to share pictures and I will also post them on the website soon. :)