Summer Sale!!

From now through the end of June, any piece in my shop that has "bamboo" listed as one of the ingredients is 15% off!! Use the code "SUMSALE" in the note to seller when you check out, and wait for a revised Paypal invoice before paying. See you 'round! :)

Here's how my bamboo turned out!

I had a really tough time capturing on camera the color of the bamboo I dyed last weekend with the girls - the fiery red one literally looked like it was on fire in my photographs!! So I photo'd that one indoors with the flash off....doesn't do the color justice at all but you can get a little glimpse! The red with black turned out well, although more fuscia-like than I expected. My favorite is the fiery red one, which was red with some yellow drizzled over the roving, and then some charcoal that Carissa had mixed up, which I hand-painted on here and there. The parts where the red met the charcoal turned this cool muted yellow-green color. This is going to be so fun to spin up!

Bamboo dyeing party!

This weekend, Steph, Abby and Carissa came over and we dyed loads of plant fibers -- Abby is the plant fiber whiz, so we all learned lots from her! The funniest part was when we all had to don masks and rubber gloves while we worked with the soda ash. We looked SO ridiculous!! For a more complete array of photos of our dyeing party, visit my flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollymillerbyappt.