Kool-Aid socks
Just prior to moving house, I knit up a little pair of socklets. I wanted to actually knit something up using my Kool-Aid yarn but my favorite swatch was a really small quantity of yarn so I needed to knit something that didn’t need too much yarn. So I decided to whip up some socklets. I figured, worse case scenario, I would have half a foot in a different color. I used a bastardized pattern blended from the Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles and the Handy Book of Kniitng Patterns. I just made the leg portion of the sock about an inch of so long before I started the heel. Luckily, I had enough yarn to finish the second sock.
I think the color looks great all knit up and they are pretty soft. Not as soft as more expensive superwash merinos like Koigu but its the perfect cheap yarn for Kool-Aid dying. I still have a ton of it and I’m looking forward to dying a few more batches and knitting up more socks in the fall.
The completed socks shown are pre-wash. For the record, the KnitPicks Color Your Own yarn says its superwash not superdry. Do not put them in the dryer if you don’t want them to shrink. Consider yourself warned.
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Your feet look so cool in those socks!!!
Too cool I love the colors and the idea – finally a good use for kool aid!!! I will add a link to my blog!
Just as an FYI: On this page the pictures did not come up (little red x).
I have been an avid Kool Aide yarn dyer myself and loved the color results. My favorite was using baby alpaca, fingering wieght, Orange, Yellow and Red Kool Aide and I painted the hank on the counter top (protected by plastic) by filling plastic ketchup bottles with the yarn and squirted the yarn with it. I did the microwave heating method and it turned out looking like a drink called Tequila Sunrise, so that is what I called the color. I have used lily stamens (tons of them) and it turned a nice rose color and then I bought a can of beets and put them in the food processor and processed the living daylights out of it and then pushed it through a strainer and it was a great dark rose color on the yarn. But my favorite dying method be far is the Kool Aide….I am going to experiment with fall colors now since it is fall here in Minnesota. Thanks for your web site…Victory
it is a great idea to die yarn with kool-aid, but just one question. if you make a garment out of it and then wash it, will it run and get ruined?