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Wardrobe colouring

PiaChit Chat

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Today’s post is related to the previous one. As before I still struggle with my taste for colour, and every time I think I’ve developed a colourscheme of just 3-4 shades, I keep finding a few extras that would also go well. Some of them overlap into the next group, others are completely different. From buddhist monks’ robes to pale greens and blues, from intricate patterns to solids. My brain overloads completely with colours from nature all the time, any season. I could make swatches and sketches as a full time job and never get beyond that.

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Sea & sand

PiaAcid Dyeing

Sunday swatch this week is an actual project, not just a colour strip.

I always get a kick from the colours of nature, and this is also where I get my ideas for yarn colours in spinning and dyeing. I don’t always end up where I started, but that’s kinda irrelevant. I’m having fun.

This time I came up with the title above, inspired by various images, among them an old unfinished painting of mine that I stumbled on, some photos I’d forgotten about and then my mind just began to ramble.

      

So I decided to play around with recreating the colours in my mind and test if they would actually work together in a scheme, as well as look good in a variegated yarn and knitted up.

I wanted the yellow a more straw coloured muted hue than the first samples (never mix dyes when in risk of being interrupted with trivialities! Pffft), so it looks like there’s going to be versioning of this colourway.

 

 

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PÃ¥ stranden

Sea & Sand er en farvekombination jeg har tænkt over længe, og som jeg gerne vil kunne genskabe nogenlunde – evt. med variationer efter humør. Konceptet er havet, himlen, men ogsÃ¥ sandet og marehalmen. Den irgrønne farve er ret svær at ramme!

SÃ¥ planen er at teste bÃ¥de pÃ¥ fiber med forskellige farvemetoder, i gryde, “malet”, som fletning og teste hvordan det bliver nÃ¥r det er spundet og strikket, samt som stribet garn.

Nogen af varianterne vil nok blive destashet, det er trods alt begrænset hvor meget jeg kan nÃ¥ at spinde, men det er altsÃ¥ farvningen som interesserer mig mest i øjeblikket – og andre farveholdninger presser pÃ¥ i baggrunden! 😉 Naturen venter jo ikke, den sender sine indtryk til sanserne hver gang man gÃ¥r udenfor døren.

Heldigvis er de fleste af “fejlfarverne” ogsÃ¥ flotte, selvom de ikke ligner det jeg havde i mit hovede til at begynde med. Det er jo herligt, sÃ¥ hÃ¥ber jeg at finde nogen som har lyst til at være en del af selve spinde-eksperimentet hen ad vejen.

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