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We were at Grandma's and decided to try some more Kool-Aid dyeing. We started with about 4 ounces of a dark greenish yarn to see what that would end up with.
Here are my lovely assistants holding the undyed yarn.
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Here we're adding the 3 cups of water and 1 cup of vinegar to a large zippy bag.
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Next came 4 packages of Kool-Aid.
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Mix it all up!
Emily is having a ball!!
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The yarn is in the bag with the dye now.
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Putting the yarn outside on the cement to "cook".
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Closeup showing the yarn in the bag with the dye mixture.
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Yarn #2 all done! We left it outside for almost 3 hours.
This is our finished yarn with the beginning colored yarn on top. It ended up browner than we expected. We were thinking more of a cranberry color.
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This is the natural color of the yarn we used for our 3rd attempt.
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This is the dye all ready. This time we only used 1½ cups of water and ½ cup of vinegar and 2 packages of Kool-Aid. (that was all we had in blue and Sarah requested blue!)
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We decided that the dye mixture stayed around the yarn better when the bags were hanging.
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Here's the finished yarn for attempt number 3! This one "cooked" for about 2½ hours.
This is the closeup with the natural color on top.
Emily was very interested in my attempts to take a picture of the finished yarn. She kept trying to use the towel to wrap up a doll! (you can see Kimberly's feet in the lower left corner)
Here are all 3 of our yarns laid out next to each other.