Crafty Saturday-Fun With Koolaid

I've been itching to try my hand at dying wool and felting . So last Saturday, the kidlings and I tried dying wool with Koolaid. It was lots of fun and very cool. We adapted these instructions from www.knitty.com with great success. Here are our supplies:

Wool, Lemon-Lime, Tropical Punch and Grape Kool-Aid, misc kitchenware, water and a microwave (not pictured)

After soaking the wool in warm soapy water and getting kind of sticky mixing the Kool-Aid, we plunked our wool into the dye baths:

So bright!

We microwaved each dye bath in 2 minute increments. The purple and green took about 6 minutes each, the red took about 8 minutes. We knew we were done when the bath water was clear:

Isn't it amazing how clear the water is after the wool has sucked up the dye?

We let the wool cool a little bit and then took it out to dry.

Next time we'll use gloves

And here's the final product:

Success!

Next up: Felting!!