DYE DAY: SATURDAY, JULY 26 2014
Time for our annual color extravaganza of dyeing! Date: Saturday, July 26 Where : the home of Carol Causey Time : 10 am to about 4 or so Dyes this year are focusing on cotton and linen. We hope you will bring either your handspun from this past year, or any kind of cotton and/or linen fiber or yarn that you would like to dye. In addition to any serious dyeing you want to do, the official "just for fun" activity will be "Balls to Dye For". For this activity the guild will have 120 yard to 140 yard balls of "kitchen cotton". This is the stuff you can get at almost any craft store as "Lily's Sugar 'n Cream" or "Peaches & Cream". It is about worsted weight and can be used for lots of different crafts such as woven towels or placemats, knitted or crocheted wash cloths or kitchen scrubbies. They are actually really nice as crocheted wash cloths. Patterns will be handed out. The balls of cotton are kept in their ball state, s...