Natural Dye Class

A class on Dyeing Wool with Natural Dyes has been schedules for April 26, 2014. We will be meeting at Dakota Fiber Mill/The Wood and the Wool for a day of fun and learning. Each participant will receive 200 yards of wool to play with. A free lunch will be offered. All supplies are provided. Just be sure to wear old clothes! The cost is $30.00 per person. 

Come and learn, hands on, how to dye wool with natural dyes. We will be cooking up the dye pots. Information will be provided on what to use and how to use it. There are hand outs with lots of resources included.


We will be dyeing with onion skins...

Turning these .....





              Into these!

We will be cooking up a pot of walnit hulls and creating this...

And cooking cabbage....

To create these!

Everything you need will be provided. Just wear old clothes and be ready to play! To sign up for the class go to this site: https://www.facebook.com/dakotafibermill?hc_location=timeline 

You will find a map to the location and information of signing up for the glass. 

Hope to see you there!

Landscape Yarns

Arachne Yarns is excited to introduce a new line of yarns.

Landscape Yarns are spun from locally produced farm wool blended with other fibers. The fibers used include primarily local fibers such wool, mohair, alpaca, llama, yak camel, silk, and more. Some non-local fibers may be used for highlighting.

Colors are hand blended prior to spinning. Inspiration comes from natural landscapes.
Colors are chosen from either photographs or actual natural scenes. Landscape yarns are then spun into singles and navajo plied producing a yarn that is 12 WPI. These yarns are soft, warm  and produce an interesting fabric.

(Landscape: Prairie Winter)






To showcase these yarns, I have created a new pattern: The 100 Yard Hat. This hat uses less than 100 yards of Landscape Yarn and is knit on size 8 circular needles. There is a very small amount of a contrasting yarn used in the making of a flower for added charm. This pattern is available in the My Patterns section of this site).

(Landscape: Superior)

The photo of the hat above gives an example of the way the colors play out in Landscapes yarns. 

This makes them wonderful to use alone and in combination with solid colors. Each skein of Landscape offers a large range of colors that can be used with it. 

 Here a single skein is set aside two different natural colors of wool. Landscape Yarns also lend themselves well to textured knitting such as cables.