Marblelizing wool

 I bought Karen Kahle's little book on Marbleized Wool and I have been having such fun will all the beautiful colors that can be produced.  You can find Karen's book at ETSY under primitivespirit or here.  It is a tiny book, but worth it's weight in gold!

Just look at the pretty colors all mingled together.  The ones below were marbleized by sandwiching an off white wool between the solid green and solid blue.  See how it marbleized them all.

  I have marbleized wools before, but I really think the book explains the process in detail and I have much better success.  The one below was the first I tried using her process.  Isn't it great?

 

These I did last night. I want to hook Karen's little pocket Birdsnest Bag that she has as a free pattern using these marbleized wools below.  You can find her free pocket pattern on her blog http://primitivespirit.wordpress.com/ or here.

 

Happy Hooking!

Marbleizing Wool

Yesterday I tried my hand at marbleizing wools together.  "Rug Hooking Daily" has a Dyeing Studio Group started by Caroline Dlugy-Hegwer.  She has a wonderful blog with beautiful wool creations.  Her blog is http://carolinedhstyle.blogspot.com/.

I tried her process of marbelizing wools together (no dye used, just twisting dark wools and light wools together and boil in water).  Find her process here.  It is a lot of fun and no mess.  Here are my results. If you are a hooker, you need to try this one!

The wools to the left are the before.  The darker wools are only very slightly affected, but see how beautiful the lighter ones turned out.

I also spent some time dyeing wool for our Guild.  We were in desperate need of golds and yellows.

Happy hooking everyone!