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Aug 10 / Ana

Kool Aid Dyeing: Step One

Step one to dyeing yarn with KoolAid: Buy Yarn. My KnitPicks Color Your Own Natural 100% Merino yarn arrived yesterday. Ten lucsious skeins of virgin yarn screaming for color. The yarn is super-soft and has surprisingly good spring in it. I’m am dying to dye it!

My dear husband checked the grocery store this morning and brought me a small selection of KoolAid packets to add to the embarrassing stash I’ve been hiding in the back of the pantry since the mid-90s. I am dying to see what pina-pineapple will look like! I have this crazy urge to go to every grocery store in search of strange and unusual flavor/color possibilities.

So, now I’m searching online for best methods for dyeing yarn using KoolAid. I found the most amazingly scientific demo for dyeing cotton yarn. For all her scientific sample swatches, she sways away from this rigorous approach for her larger skeins and her results ended up being less than stellar. Alternately, Neauveau’s approach is very freeform with fairly good results.

My goal is to dye the yarn on Saturday so I’m going to have to roll up some skeins tomorrow or Friday in preparation since I want to do a few skeins with the self-striping technique as well as a bunch of little sample swatches. I might just employee Neauveau’s technique and just sprinkle some color in a pot and see what happens! On to step two: re-roll skeins.

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  1. Secret Pal / Aug 11 2005

    Ana,
    Love the new look. Be looking for a package soon.

  2. Ollie / Sep 26 2008

    Never thought of using drinks as a dye before, but with all the toxic additives they put in them I guess they share the same chemical family somewhere.

  3. KAro / Nov 12 2008

    What happens when you want to wash the yarn? The dye goes away ?

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