These yarns were hand dyed with natural dyes but members of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. Last night I went to the monthly meeting and we were given a demonstration on how to use a peg loom. It is such a simple device and method yet you can produce useful products such as rugs, chair seats and bags. All sorts of materials can be used on the peg loom, such as chunky yarn, raw fleece, selvedge etc. This is going to be a good way to use all those bags of fleece I have in my craft room. Now I will have to think about what colour scheme to use so that a really nice item is made. We have a show and tell meeting at the Guild in March (such a long way off) and I would like to take a peg loom item to show.
During the summer I dyed quite a few pieces of fleece and they have been sitting in a heap in the sewing room, gathering dust. A few weeks ago I saw someone wearing a long necklace laced with buttons and the idea came to me to attempt to make a fleecy button necklace. This fleece has been died with woad and some with indigo to give these blue shades. It is very light in weight and I have other coloured pieces of fleece which will eventually be made into necklaces.
Woad plantImage via Wikipedia
