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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? All of the way from India 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. Then……..I opened up my grape Kool Aid (well generic kool aid) Then I sprinkled and heated and then tossed and repeated until I was happy…. Sprinkle, sprinkle…..and heat toss and sprinkle and heat… 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. 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 tes

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This is for all of my Hawaii knitter's who are always knitting in paradise. We all envy you!! Knit and enjoy. The island of Moloka. Sunset

Kool Aid Dyeing, Oh Yeah

I have a new wheel, a Lendrum folding wheel from Paradise Fibers, I love it, of course it’s the only wheel I know or how really used so I’m biased. I started with roving to play with, then I had purchased about 12 or so oz of white merino at a fiber fair. I decided I would spin all of this and ply it. My logic was after that I would have a good idea of what I was doing. Which I think worked fairly well. Some snaggles at first. My first three skein of plied handspun. Woot…. Well I’m not sure what I had planned for this, but I just fondled them for a while, they were so soft and squishy, and made me smile. Some where along the line I decided they needed color. (I know some of these photos I have blogged before but I am so enamored by Kool Aid dyeing that they are having a encore presentation) Numerous online bloggers recommended Kool Aid for my first foray into dyeing. Even so, I was a bit uncertain as I started, after all this was my first, plyed handspun yarn. Off