Yesterday I introduced you to some fabulous new yarns that I received from Ashland Bay. They have such a great texture and are really fun to work with. And the best part is that they are 100% domestically raised and spun; 100% products of USA. They came to me in a beautiful cream color. I love the soft neutral tone of these yarns but I also had the urge to dye some of it using a really cool technique that I came across awhile back: Kool Aid and the Crock Pot!
I first saw this done over at Leethal Blog and I had to give it a try! You will need a bunch of packets of Kool Aid in multiple flavors and your yarn wrapped in hank form.
I filled the crock pot up with water and about a cap full of vinegar. The vinegar helps the Kool Aid set into the yarn. I submerged the yarn into the water and let it soak for about 3 minutes before covering it and turning it on low. You will want to let it heat up for about 15 minutes. Then you can add your Kool Aid. I used tropical punch and cherry flavors in one crock pot to make a beautiful bright pinky red color. I used Tropical Punch and Grape in the other crock pot to create a tie-dye look of maroons and purples.
The pink is made with Ashland Bay Montana yarn and the purple tie-dye in made with Ashland Bay Dakota yarn.
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What a great idea! I'll definitely need to try this! 🙂 I love the purple!
How did you get the purple to do the tie dyed look and not color the whole thing? If it's all in the same crock pot wouldn't the kool-aid colors mix and it would all be dyed? I love this and can't wait to try it. I have my yarn and kool aid already!
You can also use wide rubber bands around the hank (or parts of it) to get a cool striping effect.
wow can you do this to things all already crochet up
how cool! the color won't rub off on you when wearing it will it?
Wow that looks great and so easy.
That turned out great, love the colors. I can't wait to see what you're gonaa make with them.
this is very cool!!! I can't believe everything gets absorbed by the end and the water is clear!!
Very fun! My daughters are spinning wool…learning to spin wool, and this would be a great thing to do next. (We did a tiny bit of kool-aid dyeing w/ our 4h club…dyeing the roving – but dyeing the hanks would be nice too!)
I'm visiting California from Sweden for a couple of weeks. Since we don't have coolaid back home I thought I'd bye it here. Any ideas on were I can find it?
Will the color come out if you wash it in the washing machine?
I just tried this today and was bummed. I didn't know how much water to put in the crock pot, so I filled it just over half way and put the cap full of vinegar. I let it soak first, then turned it on and put in the Kool-Aid. Needless to say, after 3 hours, no stirring, the whole skein was colored and when I took it out after it cooled to rinse it, the little color that did stick (I used 3 packets, since I didn't know how many to use) rinsed right out. I'll check out utube for more specific directions. Apparently you can do this easier on the stove. I was trying to get variegated color since I can't find one with this color anywhere. Too bad.
How many packets of Kool-aid is needed to color the yarn? And how much water do I put into the crock pot? As Jillian stated she used 3 packets of Kool-aid and it didn't work for her. So I was just trying to clarify the directions.