Blending Color: Heathers & Tweeds

About Blending Color: Heathers & Tweeds

Add a little texture and depth using color theory to create heather and tweed fiber blends. Students will explore complex color blends that provide harmony and how to avoid muddy results in their heathered blends. Flecked texture will be added to the mix for tweed and garneting effects in our second blend of the session.

Supplies, Equipment & Materials Needed for Class

• Fiber: 3½ to 4 oz of a base of wool or alpaca in combed top, fleece, roving (or whatever prep you have)and the following:
- 2 colors that are analogous or semi analogous on the color wheel
- 1 contrasting color to the other two on the color wheel
- ¼ to ½ oz of any combination of silk noils, scrap yarns, soybean staple, tencel neps
These should be anything that will tear apart/fleck within your blend. They can be any color but will be more effective as a POP of color within your blend
• Blending equipment: Hand carders or drum carder

Materials Kit

$25 plus shipping
Kit is optional - Heather & Tweed Kit includes:
3½ oz combed top (equal amounts of 3 colors)
½ oz of tweed/flecking material
Kit may include silk noils, scrap yarns, soybean staple, tencel neps, upcycled denim.

Purchase your materials kit here: https://bricolagestudios.bigcartel.com/product/maryland-winterfest-supply-kit-heather-tweed

Kit Shipment Schedule: Order by January 1 for shipment by January 10
If any kits remain in stock, listings will remain live through the end of the recording access period (30 days post class date) or until sold out. After January 10th, kits will go out on a rolling basis but delivery by the live session on January 24th is not guaranteed.

Pre-class Homework

None