After Dye Day

There was some clean up to do after last Weeks Dye Day. Some of the supplies could go out into the annex and some of the supplies have to stay inside under the shelves that hold our weaving yarns. I took the first tub that would go under the shelves and found a lot of stuff that didn't belong there, making it impossible for me to put the supplies away! A lot of it was random yarn that had been donated over the last year and never put away. There were also a couple of projects waiting to be woven or even wound into a warp. I pulled all of that out of the space I needed for the Dye Day supplies and took them to the table for us to go through so that they could be put away or given away. When I looked up I found that Marie had begun organizing one of the crowded cupboards we have for all the little bits of things you need when you have looms. Looks like I started something.

Meanwhile Patty was outside rinsing dyed skeins from last weeks "Dye Day". These skeins have already been hosed off and this is the first rinse. After lunch they will be rinsed again and hung to dry until next week in the annex.

After lunch and a small business meeting where we started filling in the schedule for our booth at the Foothills Guild Fall Show, we had "Show and Tell". Rhonda brought in the towels she had been working on here at the Center. These are towels woven in Fall colors in "M's and O's".

Judith finished a table runner for her sister that has been in the works for a long time, which means it qualifies for the "Unfinished Business Challenge" that will end next Tuesday! Mark has several placemats in Christmas colors for the shop upstairs.

Normally this is when I sign off, but of course we still have the skeins that need to be spun out and hung to dry. These first two pictures are of the skeins in their second and for the most part final rinse.

We use the spin dryer centrifuge a lot in this process spinning the extra water and dye out of the skeins. Here they are after their final spin, ready to hang until next week.

There are only 2 skeins that will need another rinse, but that will happen next week. Here are the skeins hanging in the annex. Next week we will be able to get some close ups of the final skeins.