Koolaid Wool

[Miss USA]

So I had at it. One skein white Lambs Pride wool. I used my crockpot, and got a bit carried away by the different colours. I just couldnt settle. What I came up with was funny gay pride wool.

Then, I did something totally idiotic. I decided to ball it up, and laid it out on the floor and created a giant MESS. I spent the better part of the morning detangling and cursing myself for being so stupid. The good part was, I got to admire all the vibrant colours as they went through my fingers.

I finally got it together. but all the agitating sortof made it full up a bit, thats ok though, I will most likely be felting this anyhow.

[smokeyp81]

Very nice colors. I like it!

[nana5boys]

nice colors.

 

jaye

[cupcake]

The colours look fantastic!

 

A kind fairy godmother sent me some cool aid. Can you please tell me what to do with it to use it as a dye??

[Yelutci]

Beautiful! It looks less um gay-pride and more Grateful Dead now that it's dry.

Cupcake-just dissolve the Kool-aide in warm(not hot) water and then let your wool soak in the sun until it's a color you like. I put 2 different colors in big plastic cups and then set the ends of the skien in each, right next to each other;only a bit of yarn is left out but the dye bleeds up to the middle part, some. When the water turns clear I lay the skien flat in a glass dish so it can mix in the middle a bit more, sometimes I give it a little squish, too. You can also microwave it for a short time or crock-pot to like Miss USA, but I have only used the sunshine method. Give it a try, its lots of fun.

[Miss USA]

Heres another I did on my lazy sunday! 4 packets of grape, 4 packets of tropical punch:clap created a very deep almost blackish purple and rich red

[pixiedust]

I put 2 different colors in big plastic cups and then set the ends of the skien in each, right next to each other;only a bit of yarn is left out but the dye bleeds up to the middle pa, some. When the water turns clear I lay the skien flat in a glass dish so it can mix in the middle a bit more, sometimes I give it a little squish, too.

 

Cool!! I use the "sun tea" method of kool-aid dying myself, using canning jars to hold my skeins. I've been struggling with how to do varigated yarns with this method -- it never occured to me to put the ends of the skeins in different jars! I'll have to give it a try this weekend.

[Yelutci]

oooo- That second one is a beautiful color for fall!

[losingmymind2]

Beautiful colors, and maybe a good fairy will bring you a yarn swift so you don't have to do the detangling so often? That's the part of dyeing I dislike most, unless I can slip it on my swift and go at it with my ball winder.

[C.D.]

So I had at it. One skein white Lambs Pride wool. I used my crockpot, and got a bit carried away by the different colours. I just couldnt settle. What I came up with was funny gay pride wool.

Now that you have it together did you crochet with it? If yes I would love to see the way it worked out. I love the colors.

 

Thanks for sharing.