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How To Dye With Nettles

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023July 22, 2022Leave a Comment on How To Dye With Nettles

If you would like to learn how to dye with nettles, this blogpost is for you. You can use nettles as a dyestuff for both wool and fabric. You just have to be aware that the mordanting part of the dyeing process differs whether you are using protein (wool) or cellulose fibers (e.g. cotton, linen). …

grey and yellow skeins of yarn and a pink rose in the middle

Overdyeing And Modifying Yarn Colors You Don’t Like

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023July 8, 2022Leave a Comment on Overdyeing And Modifying Yarn Colors You Don’t Like

Today’s topic is all about overdyeing and modifying yarn colors you don’t like. Let’s talk about what you can do when you are not content with the yarn color you created. With natural dyeing, you never completely know how the final colorway is going to look like. To me, personally, this is part of the …

a hand holding three yellow skeins of yarn in front of dyer's chamomile flowers

How To Dye With Dyer’s Chamomile (Solar Dyeing)

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023June 24, 2022Leave a Comment on How To Dye With Dyer’s Chamomile (Solar Dyeing)

In this blogpost I will show you one way of how to dye with dyer’s chamomile. For this experiment, I opted for the solar dyeing method. Instead of the regular dyeing process where you heat the dyestuff in a pot of water, solar dyeing utilizes the power of the sun to slowly and gently dye …

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How To Dye Yarn With Dandelions

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023May 26, 2022Leave a Comment on How To Dye Yarn With Dandelions

This blog post contains a step-by-step approach of how to dye yarn with dandelions. Although they are often considered weeds, dandelions have many interesting properties and thus can be used in various ways. I have listed some different applications below. But we will first and foremost focus on the natural dyeing properties of dandelions. In …

More About Rosemary & Pines Fiber Arts And Natural Dyes

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023April 29, 2022Leave a Comment on More About Rosemary & Pines Fiber Arts And Natural Dyes

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a college student who was working on a paper and presentation for her knitting class. Part of the assignment was an interview and she asked me to answer a couple of questions about natural dyes. There are some general questions about the process itself and dye …

nine colorful skeins of yarn in a basket

Natural Dye Plants: An Overview

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023April 1, 2022Leave a Comment on Natural Dye Plants: An Overview

This post is an overview of natural dye plants and the color spectrum you can achieve. If you are interested in specific dye plants or colorways, you can explore each topic in more detailed blog posts which are linked below. This is not a complete list by any means. Rather, it contains all the natural …

kitchen towel directly after bundle dyeing, colorful

Bundle Dyeing With Natural Materials

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023March 4, 2022Leave a Comment on Bundle Dyeing With Natural Materials

Bundle dyeing with natural materials is a wonderful way to get started with natural dyeing. It is also a great possibility to reuse dyestuff or experiment with plants from your garden or even kitchen waste. Furthermore, it is a fun and simple natural dyeing technique you can do with children. For this tutorial, I decided …

blue coloured yarns on a natural coloured fabric

How To Dye With Indigo

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023February 11, 2022Leave a Comment on How To Dye With Indigo

Today we are going to explore the basics of how to dye with indigo. Dyeing with indigo is very different from other natural dyes. This is due to the fact that indigo extract powder is insoluble in water. In order to facilitate the bonding of the dye to the yarn or fabric, it is necessary …

dusty pink and white linen waffle kitchen towels and a wooden spatula

How To Dye Fabric With Natural Dyes

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023January 21, 2022Leave a Comment on How To Dye Fabric With Natural Dyes

This blogpost is going to focus on how to dye fabric with natural dyes for beginners. If you have been around my website before, you know that I usually dye yarn with natural dyes instead of fabric. In fact, there is a whole natural dyeing category where you can find numerous blog posts about dyeing …

flowering rosemary and a bee

Dyeing Yarn With Rosemary

by Annikaupdated on January 27, 2023November 12, 20212 Comments on Dyeing Yarn With Rosemary

Dyeing yarn with rosemary is a great way to get started with natural dyeing. Rosemary is readily available in many regions, even if you don’t happen to have a rosemary plant growing in your own garden. Like my company’s name suggests, I highly value rosemary as a dye plant. Not only does it smell absolutely …

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  • In the last newsletter, I talked a little bit about the purchase and renovation process of our 110 year old home. Afterwards, several people reached out to me and were interested in learning more about our approach towards sustainable housing and renovation. Since this topic has been in the forefront of my mind for quite some time now, I happily obliged and wrote a blog post with six topics to consider when purchasing and renovating a home - if sustainability matters to you. You can find the post here:
https://www.rosemaryandpinesfiberarts.de/our-approach-towards-sustainable-housing/

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  • The Schneeflöckchen socks pattern was released today! And I hope you like it as much as I do!
It is a cuff down sock design which contains a simple colourwork motif throughout the sock. The cuff and toe contain some subtle scallops for an added detail. The pattern comes in four different sizes and is available in English. You can find it both on Ravelry and Lovecrafts.
The yarn I used to knit the sample is my naturally dyed yarn in the Luster Sock DK base. You need a full 100 g skein of yarn and a 50 g skein of yarn in a contrasting colour. You can find the yarn in my Etsy shop (link in bio) or use a DK weight yarn of your choice (yardage 250 m/100 g).

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  • Last year I designed the Schneeflöckchen hat as part of @_makingstories annual winter celebration (swipe right for a picture of the hat).
And today, one year later, I am so happy to show you my newest design, the Schneeflöckchen socks. Since I liked the patterning of the hat so much, I decided to create a pair of socks with the same pattern. It is reminiscent of snowfall (Schneeflöckchen means little snowflake in German) because snow always brings me joy. The pattern will be released on Ravelry on December 16th.

If you are one of my newsletter subscribers, be sure to check your inbox tomorrow because there will be a special discount code both for the pattern itself and my Etsy shop as a thank you to you! And in case you are interested, you can join my newsletter here: https://www.rosemaryandpinesfiberarts.de/

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#pflanzengefärbtewolle #nachhaltigewolle #färbenmitplanzen #wollliebe
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