Drum carder dyeing is my favorite kind of dyeing. Lots and lots of random pots of all kinds of fibers and colors. I love not having to think or plan or make the colors repeatable or worry whether I’ve already done this combination or mix enough dye for a whole batch. It’s like cooking, a pinch of this and a handful of that, mostly you can’t remember what went in it, so you have to just enjoy the little bit you ended up with.
On Friday I ferreted out all the random bits, mill ends, unsatisfying colors, random lonely skeins and sacks of unlabeled fibers I could find and whipped up a bunch of big, sloppy random, disconnected colors. Yay! Maybe I’ll start selling random carding sacks of random fibers so I can do this all the time.
That photo is just so beautiful! I’m a new spinner (just started with a drop spindle this summer), and I’m seriously drooling over all that fiber :)
oooooo….I want to touch it.