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Dyeing With Kool-Aid

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Dyeing yarn has been on my mind for a while now. I remember taking a course on dyeing and finishing of textiles in the university roughly 10 years ago. As a part of the exercise of the course we dyed samples of wool fabric with acid dyes. So this prompts the idea of dyeing yarn myself. However I decided to take an easy start and dye with food coloring, to be precise with Kool-Aid. I got 20 different flavors, even thou some of the colors were technically same. I tested 10 g skeins in four colors: white, natural white, beige, and light gray. I also had 20 g skein of white to dye one end of the skein. The rule of thumb is to use one package of Kool-Aid for 50 g skein. There were tons of instructions on the Internet, but the basics are the same. First the skeins were soaked in warm water from 10 min to 1 h. First skeins I soaked for about 30 min and after taking them out I always put new skeins in. I warmed up about 1,5 l of water almost to the boiling point and then...
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Pikesocks

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