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An e-publication The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours! (20 pages) is out! In the guide we show you the secrets of garbage dyeing, give you instructions of how to make inks and printing pastes, carve some potatoes for printing purposes and pattern some paper – fun and ecological recycling in mind. The guide is made for everyone interested – but especially for teachers and group councelors. We are glad if our guide can be utilised in teaching or any group activities.
Our guide is made to be printed at home. It is shared with Creative Commons licence, which gives permission to share, copy and print it for non-commercial use. Download, share with your friends and have fun!
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The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours!– Ulla & Päivi
The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours!
Text & pictures: Ulla Lapiolahti and Päivi Hintsanen
Layout: Päivi Hintsanen
Proofreading of the English print: Miia Huttunen and Frankie Robertson
Jyväskylä 2013, Jyväskylä 2015
ISBN 978-952-93-6329-2The original Finnish booklet (published in 2013) was supported by the Jyväskylä Art and Science Foundation.
You may save the guide to your own computer, print it and share it freely with others. It is forbidden to modify the guide or use it commercially.
The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours!, made by Ulla Lapiolahti & Päivi Hintsanen, is licensed with Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.
Kasymilon yarn from Sears- the finest in 100% Acrylic yarn.
It includes the handy 7 reasons why you should buy yarn at Sears.
So in trying to use up bunches of not natural yarns I’ve been working on an ugly blanket
It is fairly simple- take an N sizes crochet hook and a few strands of miscellaneous yarns held together. In this case various types of acrylic & nylons & who knows what else. No wool though.
I told myself that I was not going to buy yarn except I happened to be in Joann Fabrics today picking out fabric for my dad’s bathroom. I made the mistake of looking in the yarn aisle. I looked at Red Heart Super Saver which is looked down upon by yarn snobs.
I walked out with a skein of Red Heart Super Saver in day glow. This color is tied with Mexicana for ugly colors. And it will look so good on the never ending blanket.
And look- advertising- not sure why it wouldn’t link to Mexicana but here is the link to all the Red Heart colors Amazon sells
Remember a time when department stores still had craft departments? Heck even when all the discount stores had craft departments- now the only discount store with a craft department (if lucky enough to not be a remodeled one) is Walmart. In fact I still look for the arts and crafts department at my local Kmart even though it’s been gone for many years.
So all of these vintage yarns were found at my local goodwill- heck some might still be there. There are fine examples from Sears, Kmart, Grants & Twin Fair.
Posted on lokakuu 14, 2015 Kirjoittanut Päivi Hintsanen