Today Colleen and I dyed yarn. We tried two different methods: kool-aid powder in the crock pot and liquid food dye in the stove pot.  I love the way the yarn with the food dye turned out. The kool-aid-dyed yarn looks cool too, more fun to look at, but the liquid dye is just beautiful. I’m so happy with the results.

We also dyed a skein of pink/yellow, a red/orange, and some rainbow patterns. Unfortunately, red yarn does not seem to want to photograph well in tungsten light.  I’ll try to take some more pictures tomorrow in the daylight.

Some process photos:

Inside the pot is the mixture of dye, water and vinegar.  Such a professional setup, I know.  :-)  This is when we were working on the blue colorway, which ended up being one of my favorites.

The yarn hanging in the shower to dry.  We had already taken down one skein because it was dry, but it was still pretty crowded up there!  You can see some of the reds and rainbows that I didn’t get a chance to photograph.  Here you can also see the difference between the kool-aid dye (far left) and the food dye (middle two skeins).

The dry skein, post-winding.  Isn’t it beautiful?  I just love it.  It’s hard to tell in the picture, but what looks like white yarn is actually grey.

Colleen, with Teagan.  So cute!

All in all, it was a fun day of dyeing.  I’ll admit I had my doubts when Colleen first posed the idea to me, but I absolutely loved what we came up with, and I will probably dye a lot of my own yarn from now on. It’s surprisingly easy!

<3
Monica

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