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The Story of Grape Kool Aid and 2 at a time socks

I won some nice wool yarn from Where Is She Now?
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All of the way from India
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Some beige and grey yarn. While this yarn is lovely, it didn’t know what was in store for it. In the meantime, I ventured into Kool Aid dyeing.
After my first attempt, I decided I could take the beige and make it purple. But…..I would sprinkle the Kool Aid on it. Sooooo….. I soaked the yarn, and then put it in a plastic container and put it in the microwave for 2 min.
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Then……..I opened up my grape Kool Aid (well generic kool aid)
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Then I sprinkled and heated and then tossed and repeated until I was happy….
011 Sprinkle, sprinkle…..and heat
014 toss and sprinkle and heat…
020 And pretty soon it looked all different hues of purple and blue. So then I let it cool, rinsed and washed it, then hung it out to dry.
024 Pretty, and the yarn told me it wanted to be socks. But I didn’t have enough, so I went back and looked and the grey ball….I had some left over Kool Aid, so I over dyed it in the microwave.
Well a test piece first.
012 (2) hey it looks good. So I dyed it all.
015 (2) And put it out to dry, I can’t believe it matched so well, it is actually a red-purple, hard to tell in the sun.
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Pretty!!! or maybe pretty lucky??
And so the socks begin…003 With a little beer..
002 I chose the Sailor’s Delight pattern from the 2-socks at a time book by Melissa Morgan-Oakes.
May your needles fly as fast as Dragonflies…


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  1. Kathy6/11/2009

    I haven't gotten up the courage to dye anything yet. I need to get back to spinning so I can attempt it. I love the idea of koolaid because it's non-toxic. But eventually I'd love to really get into it.

    Your batch turned out fantastic. Can't wait to see it knitted up.

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  2. Marie6/11/2009

    I'm always amazed at what great results people can get from just kool-aide. Your yarn looks gorgeous!

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  3. Anonymous6/15/2009

    How creative, I think the hand dyed is so much prettier! Great hues of purple.

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  4. storybeader6/27/2009

    looks like a fun process!

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