photo from archives: Shades Of Fog

Fog is a huge part of life on the mountain, for me, and I just love the fog show …

fog in January, 2015

I love to watch it pour over the ridge from the Pacific, fluid and volatile, and into the valley,  or splashing up from it.  I also love it just thickly hovering about …

photo from archives:  Foggy

So naturally, my next tweed endeavor must capture the color of fog !

It is my basic white,  well,  a near white, where like fog, you see faint color of images behind …

Just a tiny bit of the color-saturated neutral to start, then blended several times with increasing amount of white wool, so you’ll see flecks of blue, red and yellow upon close inspection.

I really am enjoying developing a personal hand-spun color palette, and see no end to my combing wool in different combinations, racing obsessively from blending board to the spinning wheel, grabbing my camera to photograph, wash, dry, wind on swift, photogragh again …

… then on to the next !

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Techy stuff for Fog (white)…

•  Color Saturated Neutral recipe for approx 10-15% base, primary triad of blue, red, and yellow:  Blended thoroughly on blending board.   Note: for a more dramatic tweed, with gobs of color splashing through, blend only once , then continue.
• Starting with white, layer alternately with neutral (see Blending For Tweed Simplified)
•  Lift batt, divide as needed and layer again and again with more white, repeatedly fully hemogenized, more or fewer times until white/neutral values balance as desired.
• Draw off rolags.
• Colorway blend:  “Fog” .
• See ALL color blending experiments & recipes archived in Tweed Chronicles