Silk Scarves

I have been having lots of fun dyeing silk scarves. The ones on the left are dyed with cochineal and fustic, dip dyeing each scarf in both dye baths. I used onion skins with no mordant for the ones on the right. 

The scarves in the cochineal and fustic baths have been pre mordanted with alum. You can see the elastic bands I used to bunch up the silk to get a random effect.

The bunching gave a fabulous tie dye effect.

The onion skin scarves had no mordant and came out the most beautiful bronze colours.

Knitted Bag

I knitted this bag from odds and ends that I had in my stash of hand spun wool. It came out better than I expected and I really love it.

I have lined it and added pockets inside as well as a zip for security as I will use this bag a lot and I want it to be practical.

The pattern is adapted from a jumper. Greys and browns are natural colours,pink is jacob dyed with madder, yellow is onion skins, the green is dyed with cow parsley with a copper modifyer and there is comercaily dyed silk.

The handle was made on weaving sticks and I did not like it  at first because it was to loose so I put it in the washing machine to felt it and it was much better.