Dye 21 hanks in indigo and some madder as a bonus

Weaver's log, Earthdate 25022020
Weaving is going fast, so fast that yesterday I ran out of green which we have more of as its a common quality yarn, but today I ran out of the black and I don't know if we have more, as we ordered it from the Netherlands. Luckily I only hade to be stressed about it for about an hour until my teacher went to her office and I could ask her if we had more, and luckily we did. Son after I hade gotten my new spool of 28/2 something happened that surprised me. Out of nowhere as I released a tredel I herd a ka klonk, pushed it down again as I was confused and I got the same sound. What had happened was that the pin that holds the rod that holds the treadles had slipped out and the rod had wondered and fallen on the floor. Don't know how I accomplish this weird thing but somehow they seem to fallow me.

Then I attached the treadles again I realised that I never showed you how to fix if the treadles get caught on the strings, you simply tie them over like a bandage. I use rags for this as we have un abundance and they have some width to them.

Lastly today I started to prep hanks of Kampes Redgarn for dying as tomorrow I will dye a lot of yarn in indigo.

I will also do some in Krapp tomorrow as I figure I can have that on the hotplate and don't take to much care of it. Krap should soak for at least 12 hours then you have them in bits like this.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 26022020
After sitting in on the sewing class weekly meeting so I know whats going on, I went down to the basement. There was so much to be done that I didn't know where to start I felt quite overwhelmed by the task at hand. But after I hade been all over the place cleaning buckets getting hotplates, weigh ingredients. I stopped took a deep breath and calmed down focusing on one thing at a time. Once I gained my focus It all went a lot more smooth. I went with two buckets with the solution so I could do 6 hanks at a time, as my receipt said I could do 3 at a time and up to 10 total. One bucket got going a lot faster but sone the other one was going to.

The fumes of chlorine and the other stuff made me real dizzy so then I hade done one bath of all my hanks I finally went to lunch for my first brake of the day.

After lunch and some breathing as I almost fainted then I sat down in the break room. I went down and got all the ingredients again and put them in the old bath with the hot plate that I felt worked the best. My second dip for my yarn I started with the once I did last as they were the lightest in colour and ending with the once that went in first, this, in theory, would make them come out pretty close at the end. 3 of them got a third bath as they were a bit light. I also did two hanks of Möbel 8 that am planning to use in picture weaving they also got a third bath together with one a friend wanted me to do. Went it all was rinsed and hade some time in some acid water. This is a very important step as wool don't like basic solutions wich the indigo baths are, you need to neutralize it. Then all that was done it was 17.30, and I hadn't even cleaned most things.

Thought I would do that tomorrow as I didn't do the madder today, I was way busier then I thought I would be. Then I was done I sat down with my teacher and talked some, as she is going away for some week some and my classmate that weaves at school some time needed to talk throw some things so we know everything we need to know before that. Like what looms we should use for our next projects and such. I also talked about my evolved product from the fabric I analysed eg. The fabric I have woven in the 16 shaft loom. My initial thought was to do a clothing fabric for a coat. But as time is getting short I will not have time with that, so a compromise is in order. My teacher's idea was to do the pillow I were to do in the fabric you have seen in a different thicker quality of yarn, like the yarn brage from borgs vävgarner. So I said that Id brings my plant dyed stuff tomorrow.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 27022020
We both liked dark green and dark blue I hade, and we went over to the loom to see them with the warp. As they went in the same tone I thought to make it stripy with maybe 3 medallions then switch. But my teacher didn't like that ide, after some more thinking she lighted up and say this might be crazy but what if you do two green and one blue inlay. By now I have learned that what she says usually is a good idea so I just nodded to that ide. The rest of the day I spent in the basement doing the madder and cleaning everything from the indigo. At one point I forgot the madder for a bit too long and the temperature went over 70C which it shouldn't if you want the reddest of reds, my quick fix was to take a pitcher with cold water and put it in the bath.

This worked well. At the end of the day, I meet my teacher in the basement stairs with a sense of confusion in her voice about the red yarn. I then realised that I hadn't told her about me dyeing with madder, so I told her with a laugh what I hade done and she smiled.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 28022020
I am not sold on the ide of 2 green and one blue, but I'm sticking with it, again for the reason stated in yesterdays log my teacher usually is right and everyone else loves it so far.

Thes are the two reds I did and my friends one from the 3ed bath, they turned out beautifully and I can't wait to start telling a story with them.