Hi! I'm Tara and I'm the Blonde Chicken behind all this yarn! You can read more about how I got this Last week,while strolling through the very lively Abingdon Farmer’s Market, I slyly snapped this photo of a pepper plants and begonias, while my husband bought some peppers.
Throughout the week, I thought about the photo and what aspects I wanted to caputure in the yarn. I was most struck by the variety of greens and the interplay between the shot of red with the rest of the photo. It took me a few days, but on Thursday I pulled out some gray streaked mill-ends wool and a local wool/alpaca/mohair blend from Hobby Knob Farm. I put both fibers into a dyepot with a medium green. As the temperature rose, I sprinkled in a few more greens (dye will “strike” the fiber quicker when it’s already heated, so you can get patches of distinct colors while kettle dyeing).
The resulting fiber was dried outside in the sunshine and spun into a bulky single, shot through with begonia red recycled silk. The scrappy silk offers both a contrast of color and texture, the same contrast provided by the begonia in the picture.
I would love some company for the Farmer’s Market Project! Read this to learn more and then leave a comment if you’d like to join me. I welcome anyone who does any craft; I’ll make a blogroll of those involved, so make sure you leave your blog address!
