Amy Reader is a fibre artist based in Portland, OR. She learned to sew when she was six years old and quickly fell in love with textiles of all kinds. With the help of her grandmother, Amy learned to knit and crochet shortly thereafter. Amy started dyeing with kitchen safe dyes and was immediately hooked. She loves working with bold and playful colors and primarily dyes yarn for her line of hand-embroidered jewelry.
Speckles are one of my favorite things to dye! They are bright, random pops of color that are fun to apply and delightful to knit. Today on the blog, we will be sharing how to create blurred speckles using pipettes for precision application. This method gives you control over color placement. Let’s get started! SUPPLIES […]
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So you’ve dyed your favorite skein of bare yarn! Now what? There are a few things to do at this phase that will be the best for your yarn. Today we will walk you through the basic steps needed to rinse your hand dyed yarn and care for it properly. This process picks up after […]
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EGRET is a single-ply, 100% fine organic merino wool that dyes up beautifully. One of my favorite ways to dye EGRET yarn is to hand paint it. The soft single-ply shows color transitions, so it’s fun for bright multicolor dye treatments. Today we are going to hand paint a rainbow on EGRET. This dyeing method […]
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Space dyeing is a broad term meaning yarn that has multiple colors of dye applied to it – usually 2-4 colors. One of my favorite methods for space dyeing is by using jars to dip dye sections of yarn. This method creates a natural ombre effect as the ends that go into the jars first […]
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Variegation is one of my personal favorite effects to explore when dyeing yarn. I love the texture that the color variation creates when it is knitted. The depth of color and the way variegated yarn creates interesting little pools and pockets of color is a delight to explore. Today we are going to be dyeing […]
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Garment dyeing is the process where a garment is dyed after it is finished. This is handy if you want to knit or crochet something in undyed yarn and want to dye it when you are done. This can also be used to over dye something that is already finished if you want to shift the […]
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ASPERITAS is a recycled, sustainable base that is 50% recycled wool and 50% tencel. The tencel gives the yarn a beautiful sheen when dyed. Today we will be hand painting shades of peach, blush, and yellow to create a warm spring sunrise inspired skein. These colors fade together to create a lovely warm blend perfect […]
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Steam setting your hand dyed yarn is a great, easy way to finish your freshly dyed fibre. Heat setting dyed yarn ensures the dye pigment fully bonds to the wool fibres. Any of the Knomad yarns will steam set beautifully, but today we are using MARSHMALLOW DK which is wonderfully soft and squishy. SUPPLIES: Undyed […]
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Spring is fast approaching, and one of my favorite signs of spring is all of the flowers poking up from the ground. The flowers are such a beautiful, colorful reminder of the importance of the soft spring rain showers that water the plants. To welcome spring, I wanted to make a blue inspired by spring […]
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Spring is full of a variety of beautiful shades of green everywhere you look! It is one of my favorite seasons because of this. These earthy colors were the inspiration for what I dyed most recently – two skeins of soft, earthy, green on the sustainable bases EGRET and BRISTLE. Both bases are organic and […]
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