#EyeOnIndieDyers
I'm Kate, dyer of yarns and maker of anything toadstool!! I live in the
English countryside with my little family where I hand paint and dye a range
of variegated yarns that are packed with colour and speckles.
I design knitwear, often for my two small people and often covered in
toadstools, so you will generally find me knitting, or covered in dye!
Kate Selene
WWW.KATESELENE.CO.UK
I started to dye just to play two years ago with scraps of yarn and food dyes, and immediately I decided that I wanted to improve my creations using professional dyes and quality yarns, and so the adventure began!Since then I studied color theory, I’ve made hundreds of mini samples, and my love for colors continues to grow more and more every day. I officially open SnailYarn shop less than a year after in August 2014.
For now the magic happens in my home kitchen, but I hope to move soon in a separate studio.
I love highly variegated colourways, as well as subtle variegated shades, and I love stripes so much, so I create lot of tonal and semisolid colourways which can be mixed and used together to create colorful projects, and the more the pairing is unusual, the more I like it! All my yarns are kettle dyed in small quantities, usually 5 skein per batch.
I care for high quality of yarn and fibres, as well as for the environment and the animals, especially for our beloved sheeps which provide us with this wonderful material, the wool, we knitters love so much to work with. For the yarn I only use Merino wool from South America or Falkland in order to avoid the mulesing issues, Bluefaced Leicester bred in UK, and other high quality fibres, all specifically spun for hand knit.
I use environmental friendly, weak acid, exaust dye. This means that they need only a bit of vinegar or citric acid (which I use because it is odorless) to be fixed, as well as heat. They exaust at the end of the process, so no residual dye remains in the water used to dye. Plus they are guaranteed as totally safe to be worn next to the skin.
And overall I’m a knitter, I loved to knit since my childhood, but after discovering Ravelry in 2010 knitting became an addiction and a real passion, and I hope to transmit some of this passion to you through my yarns and my colours.
Valentina
When my oldest son was just wee baby I decided to cloth diaper him. As most of you know, the world of cloth diapers is like no other. Along with cloth diapers came wool interlock shorts, knitted shorties and incredibly cute custom hand made knitted items! That's all it took for me to get the urge to learn how to knit. A few trips to the local craft stores left me wanting
MORE. I have always been attracted to vibrant, deep saturated yarns, which the craft stores here seemed to be lacking. On a whim I ordered some bare yarn and acid dyes. I was immediately hooked! I will admit that the first few tries gave me some"interesting" results. I couldn't give up! I was determined to get this right. My very first successful skein of yarn was an absolute thrill! I knew from that moment I would be dyeing yarn, and lots of it. I have shared my passion with anyone who will listen to me. Teaching my friends and family to knit and how to dye yarn and fiber of their own. I have even taught some sessions at the local community center just to spread the yarn dyeing love. I really hope that my passion and love for this art
shows in my work and that our customers enjoy knitting and crocheting with it as much as I love dyeing it.
My name is Andi. I am the owner/ creative mind behind Andi Pandi Crafts. I
am originally from Wisconsin but living in Missouri.I have been dyeing
yarn for about 3 years. I also dye roving for spinning and I make projects
bags. Andi Pandi Crafts began when projects were overflowing out of my
dorm room! It wasn't until about a year ago that my shop began to grow. I
love experimenting with bright, fun colors, and also new techniques. I
hope to open my own yarn shop someday to share my love of all things
fiber!
Kim Dyes Yarn is owned by Kim Russo, who lives in beautiful Virginia, USA.
She is obsessed with gorgeous colors, the way colors look when mixed and matched with each other and how to achieve the next great idea in her head. She is a life long learner and her work reflects her continuing determination to keep learning about dyeing and color and fibers.
She is also obsessed with baking, cooking, her family and the Gilmore Girls.
Kim Dyes Yarn offers a variety of dyeing techniques on quality yarns and
spinning fibers including gradient dyes, semisolids, variegateds and mini
skeins sets.
I’m Sarah, I dye and spin yarn – and knit too! I also own the Etsy shop ilovepinkgeraniums. You might say I’m just a teeny bit obsessed with the captivating art of spinning my own hand dyed fibres into bright, theatrical skein’s of glorious colour! It’s fun, exciting and I’m completely in love creating my own unique hand dyed yarns!
Our dining room is now my craft room where I spin, knit and completely indulge myself in wool – really can’t think of a better way to spend my day!
I love what I do and would not change it for the world!
We are a young, newly married couple who began dyeing yarn out of our
apartment while in college full-time. Our love for crafting and rich color
gave way to this small business and we never could've imagined the success
it would see in it's first year of operations! Texas Dyed Wool represents a
standard of bright, bold and beautiful colors on a variety of high-quality
yarn bases in a range of weights.
