I promised pictures of the wool that I’d dyed last week and here it is. I was thinking about this actually – would a step-by-step guide to dyeing with koolaid be helpful to any of you?
Bob bought me a few books on natural dyeing for Christmas last year and I still haven’t got round to trying any of the ideas out. Truth is that natural dyeing will take a bit more preparation than dyeing with kool-aid and so I put it off. In a similar fashion, I also bought some acid dyes over a year ago with great intentions and have still not used them. No excuses there, I just haven’t got comfortable with using them yet!
Truth be told I don’t know if I’m in a great hurry to dye again. I really enjoy the end product but it’s so messy, and one little slip of the hand can wreck an entire skein but then it can be so worth it when you get it right! I’m going to reskein these to show the colours better and maybe take more photographs.
Hope you’re all having a nice weekend! Our children are all away this weekend so we’re attempting to organise our house a little. What are you up to?
Posted under dyeing wool, general crafty updates
This post was written by Vonnie on February 21, 2009
I was having a really lazy start to the day but for some reason, colourful things wake me up! So I guess now I’ll start cleaning the house
they look lovely.. makes me almost want to give it a go… perhaps I will bring a few packets of koolaid back from our trip to the states in April.
they look lovely, I particularly like the middle pic in the bottom row, very pretty.
Love the colours of the yarn,especially the green and blue. I would be interested in a step by step guide. Is koolaid hard to get hold of? xxx
i’ve seen a demo on natural dying wool. It’s amazing – looks messy! but the colours are gorgeous. Do you buy natural coloured spun wool and do it like that? It’s all fascinating. x
Beautiful colours, I love the blue, orange and green the most (bottom left pic)!