Kool-aid Power!

Well... yesterday was the great adventure in kool-aid with the fabulous Vanessa, pictured in the photos below!

Want to see what we got up to? I thought you might... there are lots of pics.

Here goes...

We had decided to hand-paint koolaid. We were dyeing for Dye-o-rama, but I think these were practice skeins.

First we made our peg warping boards, inpired by Almost Random:


And set up our dyeing supplies:


Then we wrapped our yarn:


Tangled our yarn:


Watched the yarn:


And got our yarn into a ball. By the lilac tree:


We set out our colours:


(by the Vespa):


and hand-painted our yarn:


All painted:


And ready to be nuked:


Of course, the finished product is drying and not at my house. So pics will be forthcoming.

But really, you should all get out and dye!

There are some great tutorials out there. Two of them are here and here if you are so inclined.

Project Details:
Yarn: Knitpicks Color Your Own (Fingering Weight)

My Dye: Kool-aid in Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade and Lemon-Lime
Vanessa's Dye: Kool-aid in Cherry, Strawberry, Island Punch, Orange and Grape.