i recently shared with karren, that a friend came over last week to "show"me how she dyes - well, i'm open to learning from everyone...right? we dyed a mohair shawl, the technique was easy. Fill a big old pot with water and put some fire under it. take a big old mason jar and fill with hot water and about a good dollop of syntropol. Than take your plastic spoon (one you'd eat ice cream with usually) and scoop out dye until you like the color - you can always add more! Then put about 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 glugs of vinegar in the big old pot of steaming water. Now for the good part.
Throw the fiber in the big old pot - dunk a few times. Pull out - voila, you are finished. The whole process took maybe 10 minutes - NOT KIDDING.
Well, the dye or the process matted the fiber terribly. I don't have the best comparison, but at least you'll be able to see the matting in the rasberry fiber. The light brown was done by me, using Karren's process about 2 weeks ago. The fiber was light, air, lofty. The new shawl is dense and drab in feel.
