Are you on Ravelry?

If you're on Ravelry, you might want to join the Pure Tinctoria Dyers group, we'd love to have you along to share your projects, ideas, resources and anything that you think would interest everyone.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Campaign for Wool

For those of you who missed all the action during wool week, here is a short clip of the happening in Saville Row.

This should bring a smile to your faces!

This is such fun, and you can try it yourself by going to :
Elf Yourself

Colour Inspiration from Landscapes - 2

Take a look at my images of Scotland, posted on my Facebook profile:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=252764&id=770223841&l=7354c8f931

Pick your favourite by commenting on it and I'll produce a colour palette from the most popular image!  We can then have a discussion on which dyes we'd use to produce the colours!

I'll start you off with this image from the album:
I love the smokey colours and the deep indigo blues!

Colour Palette of the Month - December!

I love colour and find it really hard to work with neutrals and monochromatic palettes.  It's strange then, that in this monochromatic snowy and frosty landscape I'm beginning to adjust!

Monday morning, this week, was really frosty in the Trent Valley and I couldn't help but take this photograph at 8.30 while out for our morning walk.

When I downloaded the image from my Blackberry I was really taken with the lovely rich browns, creams and apricots,  moving me to use it as my palette for December and as my Seasonal Greetings card.  It puts a new twist on winter colours!  It's certainly not winter white, is it?