we are in utter chaos in the house and outside, but at least we are getting started! A friend of ours came over for a week to help John with his workshop, but what they actually did was lots of creating - I got some extra kitchen cabinets, so there is now space for crockery etc. John got his workbenches made and all the heavy equipment in place and I got the beginnings of my dyehouse!This is what they started with! A good space full of my belongings - but a big mess! Haydn has the pallet truck in hand (below) - an incredibly useful tool (not that we have pallets) but it carries large things round very
happily!!By lunchtime things were progressing nicely - I had a bench down one side of the room for all my smaller dyebaths to go on - it's quite low so I can reach in
to the top of the bath to get at the yarns, then there's storage space underneath, perfect for plastic boxes of stored dyes and yarns.It's great fun having a blank canvas to design your workspace - but it's also quite challenging, what do you want in there? What would you do differently to last time? What is vital and what can go elsewhere?
By the end of the day there had been great progress - cupboards up at the back, a worktop for the microwaves, kettle, scales etc. I have 2 tables to work on and lots of dyeb
aths around. There is a washing machine to go in there and a fridge.Sady it is still going to be a few weeks before I can get started - there is no water available yet, and as for the electrics - we were warned when buying the property that the electrics needed looking at - so we were forewarned, but I wouldn't like to try and run my boilers off the one socket in the building! There are lots of plans afoot for water, the mains water is very hard, which will be a BIG shock to my system, I'm used to lovely soft water from the Welsh hills, I'm litterally going to have to learn my colours all over again!
But maybe I'll be able to get madder red?!
8 comments:
Wow, you lucky girl! Won't it be fantastic when water and electrics are in place.
Alison
Lovely big dyehouse and I see you have sunshine too!
Hope it doesn't take too long to get the electrics sorted out and safely wired.
I can see how this will be lovely when finished and can't wait to see it in person. Fingers crossed that water and electrics can be supplied soon. Can't wait to get my hands on some of the lovely Alpaca/Silk yarn and design something very special with it. Hugs from Ruthin xx
Thanks everyone - you actually don't quite get the scale of the building from my photo - it is 2 story on one side (dyehouse you saw with upstairs for hanking, a staircase needs building though!) The other side is full height and will be the cloth house, which means bigger pieces than 6m x 72" in future!!
Deb, that is going to be a really nice dyehouse to work in! Hope electrics and water will be sorted soon. It will be interesting to see how the water will work on your colours.
Margreet
Hi Debbie nice to see you getting settled in and at least started on the path to dyeing- I hope you manage to get electrics and water sorted soon.perhaps a few rain barrels could get you started.On heavy downpour and they will fill!The water will also be soft
I'd love to know how you have your boilers set up and you use them.
Lots of space, cabinets, nice. I'll be curious as to the madder red with hard water - hard as in lime or iron?
Give me a sign that all is well...are you hooked up on e-mail? I have sent you a couple...
Hope all is well. Can you let me know about 12 June/Llangollen Knit in Public Day
Hugs Heike x
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