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Natural Dyes & Home Grown Wool in NW Montana

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Playing around with mostly-BFL locks, oh my.jpg

Another stripy pair, this time for him.jpg

Top to bottom_ • Gotland x BFL ewe who was killed by the mountain lion.jpg

Sampling and hand-washing bits of fiber from different fleeces, then playing around with a mix of picking and carding techniques.jpg

...and then there's this. _Sitting for so long with a warm, fuzzy, sleeping newborn lamb in your lap that your feet fall asleep, too.jpg

Out for a stroll.jpg

Meet Maple. _No, no, not the pig, although that would be a pretty good name for a bacon-to-be critter.jpg

...Twins! Both boys._He checked in at the barn on the way down to the mailbox, and returned with the news.jpg

Saturday morning spinning in me skivvies! _Waiting for the sun to come around.jpg

Out snorgling lambies in the sunshine while I should be inside baking birthday cake.jpg___ragandstone stacker rings in action.jpg

This was day 1 of bottle feeding, the evening after their mama was killed.jpg

I know, ridiculous.jpg

The pair that sent me into a sock knitting slump. For some reason these took months to complete, spring through late summer.jpg

My Tour de Fleece goal was to get as far as I could towards a sweater's worth of handspun for _ha_brewer.jpg

After seeing the results _rebeccadesnos had dyeing this summer with willow, I immediately knew I had to try too.jpg

Hanging in the tree from which they were dyed.jpg

Dyer's polypore._Right underfoot at the edge of my favorite alpine lake.jpg

Feeling a bit sorry not to have attended the 17th International Fungi & Fiber Symposium these past few days, especially since it was held al

Campsite dyeing. _This place, it holds a good-sized chunk of my heart and soul.jpg

#flashbackfriday to a photo & notes on my first experiments dyeing with hawthorn - what the socks were spun and knit from, (borrowed from ov

When two of my ❤️s collide. _The huckleberries led me to the corts. SO EXCITED, I nearly cried.jpg

This week's roadside #sunday_bouquet, with huckleberry-stained fingers, on the way back down out of the foothills.jpg

Fiber journey.jpg_Pick➡️card➡️spin.jpg_Fleece➡️batt➡️yarn.jpg

Blue chanterelle (Polyozellus multiplex) - that's it, dried, at upper right.__Hands down, my favorite natural dye material...yet.jpg

Polyozellus multiplex a.k.a. blue chanterelle. After some late-night online sleuthing, I'm about 99% sure.jpg

#wovember prompt, number 4_ COLOUR.jpgBFL x Gotland woolen locks dyed with marigold blossoms, lightly frosted, from a friend’s greenhouse.jpg

Campground dyeing happened._Left to right_ Queen Anne's lace, pre-blooming goldenrod, fireweed, blue chanterelle x 2.jpg

Deep dark brown romeldale x merino, and creamy white rambouillet x merino.jpg

what to knit_

dyepots

wild color

black walnut

straw into gold

full spectrum

Two more sheep sheared this evening and they could hardly have been more different. _First, our merino ram, Snowman.jpg

Claimed, immediately upon cast-off, before weaving in of ends. First worn straight from blocking, just barely dry.jpg

199 grams.jpg

Autumn maple leaves, gathered, then transferred and captured, on wool.jpg

I may have forgotten to mention the early-1980s Pat Green drum carder that I picked up last fall_ _First, it took a whole lot of scrubbing,_

Knitting and breathing, spinning and dyeing, under the big sky.

"Do go chasing rainbows."

Montana Wool Works Eureka, Montana