I spent all day on Friday with my dyes. These are the first of the lace weight wools that I’ve dyed. I will be doing a lot more of these. It was very easy. The part that took the longest was making the little skeins and tying them so they wouldn’t tangle. These are going to be perfect for adding hand embroidered accents to felt.

 This is silk noil. I had several other colors that I dyed but it was hard to get a decent photo. I’ll be adding these to my felt projects as well. It will add lovely texture and a bit of shine.

 Here’s the back side. I love the texture of the silk. Isn’t it yummy?

 This is one of the scarves that I dyed quite a while ago and took to the store to sell. It was a light blue with small spots of pink. I didn’t like it and I was tired of looking at it that way. So I over dyed and it looks much better.

 Here is one of the marbled scarves I made with our group at the first of the month. I over dyed it and again, in my favorite fall colors.

 This one didn’t work out as well. I over dyed these by soaking them in vinegar, letting them dry and then painting the dye on the back side. I used a watered down blue and it dyed very unevenly. The gold one above worked just fine with the same technique.

 And this is the last one. I dyed it a pale lavender. It still isn’t something I would wear but perhaps someone else will like that much pink.

And then I needed more wool for making cat toys. So here is a rainbow of wool. You can’t really see the difference between the purple one and the blue but there is a difference. Just poor lighting. I also dyed wool for a purple and green vase that I will make for my sister for Christmas but the photo didn’t turn out well. It was a busy day but now I’m ready to get working on a lot of projects. Happy Halloween!

 Here is the page I received this week from Kathe. It’s a Tree of Life based on Klimt. You can’t really see the iridescence of the background fabric. I love the leaves at the bottom as it reminds me of autumn, one of my favorite seasons.

 Here’s a blurry close up of the hand stitching. Sorry for the bad photo.

 Here’s the back.

And look what else she sent, a lovely card and a finger woven book mark. The book mark is made by a 94 year old Greek lady. Hope I’m still doing fiber art at 94!

Here’s what I worked on this week. Two nuno felted scarves. I hadn’t tried the holes before and I really like how they came out. I have ten more scarves to do so I’m sure there will be more with the “holes”.  I am planning on dyeing both of these on Friday.  Hope everyone had  a nice weekend!

I saw this on another blog and just couldn’t resist. Sounds just like me!

 Here’s the page I made for Cobi for September. Her theme is Art Nouveau. I probably wouldn’t have chosen this theme so it was fun trying something different. This is done with commercial batiks, machine applique and hand stitching.

Here’s the back.

And here’s a close up. I’ve got my design worked out for my next page. It is for Elizabeth and her theme is windows. I’m not sure if I have the fabrics I want so I may have to go out and buy some fabric. I have to go search through my scraps first though. Hopefully, I’ll find something I can use.