"These two tiny skeins were both mordanted with alum and dyed with mallow leaves - a weed in my lawn. They were modified with iron,  both in the same dye bat...

Guild member Karen Vincent continues her experiments with dyeing her blended merino/alpaca fleece with interesting results. "Vinegar has been the only mordan...

We all love Eucalyptus cordata and the colours we get when eco dyeing. Di Kearney has achieved some interesting results here using different modifiers and wo...

Guild President Di Kearney was busy last week. These skeins were dyed with Coreopsis. Di tells us "Wool and silk dyed with Coreopsis flowers. The two large s...

I don't know about you, but I love the colours in this bag! Robyn Delaney from West Hobart sent in these photos of her work. Robyn said "small felted messeng...

Patrice Avery from the Deloraine group has sent in this lovely example of Fair Isle. Patrice tells us "I tend to favour monochromes, and natural or muted col...

A good day enjoyed by some of our Guild members, weaving from Marie Ratcliff, Viv Crawford, Di Kearney and Sue Hastie.

As much as I love vibrant brash colour ways, I am in love with these skeins. How do I convince Di that they belong in my stash? Again the use of different mo...

Another mini lesson show and tell by Di Kearney. Again, Di tells us that "this photo shows the skein in the previous photo after it has been re wound. The ot...

From Doris Banks comes this lovely example of what you can achieve with finds from your garden. Doris tells us "Not the colour I hoped for, probably better w...

The use of different mordants and modifiers changes the results you achieve when using natural dyes. Guild President Di Kearney is giving us a mini-virtual w...

Guild president Di Kearney shows us what you can achieve using something as simple as this Buddleia (aka the common butterfly bush) from your garden. If you ...

Did you know that as a Guild member, you can sell items you've made in the Guild Hall during the Tasmanian Craft Fair? Spin, Dye, Weave, Knit, Crochet...the ...

These skeins from Di Kearney were waiting for their pre-mordant bath in rhubarb leaves. If you are using rhubarb as a mordant, the leaves contain oxalic acid...

This personal challenge to guild members is taken from a recent challenge held by the Victorian Guild Thursday Dye Group. We would like to adopt this idea as...

Round two of the challenge starts out with a pic of an entry that was posted to Instagram, but didn't make it to the blog - ah, the vagaries of posting to mu...

We are closely monitoring information about the 2020 Tasmanian Craft Fair. As of the date of this post, we have the following information from Craft Fair man...

These final entries bring to a close Round 1 of the Brighten Our World With Colour Challenge with a slash of colour. Annamaria Mangus from the Westbury Spinn...

This is the final week of our first challenge, with entries closing on Friday 24th April. We hope that seeing all the beautiful colour combinations our Guild...

This morning, as we enter week 3 (for some of us it has been even longer) I wonder how we are all coping. There is a myriad of information on the internet on...