Natural Dyeing

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Natural dyeing can be as simple as collecting tansy leaves from your garden or old tea from your cupboard, placing it and a skein of yarn in a canning jar filled with water out on your porch on a sunny day. Of course, it can be more involved as well—it depends on what colors you’re looking for, the fibers you are dyeing, and the pH levels in your water supply.

There are basic rules to dyeing: know your dye, know your fiber, and know your water.

Interweave offers a free Guide to Dyeing Yarn eBook - an essential guide whether you’re a beginner or are experienced in dyeing. 

This book will help you dive into the basics of hand dyeing yarn and understand the different approaches depending on the fiber, from cotton to wool.

Wearing Woad complied a list of Natural Dyeing Resources that may also be helpful.

Dyeing Podcasts

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Sweet Georgia Yarns has produced and aired three dyeing podcasts.

Dyeing Podcasts

Sage Ridge Mill & Critters' Retreat

An amazing day of Natural Fibery fun Workshops & FREE Demos for You

June 24, 25 & 26th, 2016

This will be hosted on a Working Wyoming Fiber Ranch – 

SageRidge Mill & Critters

Located in Clearmont, Wyoming at 

239 Thompson Creek Rd

Bring your Tent or Camper!  

We will have some campers available on a first come- first serve basis. 

Clear Creek Stop in Clearmont has three cabins available for overnight rental

Other motel accomadations are available 30 miles away in Historic Buffalo, Wyoming.

Come and enjoy an experience of working with natural fibers, helping to make a connection with the animals that produce your fiber and learning from producers who raise the fibers you love!

(We will only be working with Natural/Local Fibers at this event) 

Class prices vary from $15 to $75 depending.  

Pre-Registration is preferred this year 

but 

Sign-up the day of the event at the check-in will be available for most classes.

There will be classes (and Demos) in Weaving, Needle Felting, Wet Felting, Spinning (wheel and drop spindle), Natural Plant Dyeing, Knitting, Crochet, and whatever else these clever natural fiber producers can bring with them to teach us!

Lunch will be provided (FREE): make your own sandwich from 12 – 1 pm.

Dinner will be at 5:30 pm over the campfire both evenings.  Dinner is $10.00 per person ($6.00 for children under 12) but is FREE if you register (at the gate) & enjoy 2 classes!

Marshmallows over the campfire are FREE

Classes are available for passerby observation FREE of charge, but to participate, you must register for the class.  Again our main focus is to use and enjoy naturally grown regional fibers down to the LAST bag! 

Community Work (Gossip) Area – FREE

Call us at 307-758-4616 to reserve your space to come and have fun with us in the Wyoming Prairie.  

Or email Linda at sageridge@rangeweb.net.  

If you want to see “the place” and get a feel for our “working ranch” and what you might expect to experience and appropriate gear to bring with you, go to www.sageridge.net. 

Back to the Ranch…. It’s time to experience where your Fiber comes from….

Natural Dyes and Weaving

Interested in learning more about Natural Dyes and Weaving? Sara Morgan Ward prepared a book on the topic in 2001.

The book is available free online and covers the following topics:

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The book can be read online or downloaded in a variety of methods - (see image below)