Science Class

For a while now I've been wanting to dye some more yarn. I had great success with coffee, I have my dried Hollyhock flowers, but I don't think I'm ready for that one yet. I thought I'd go an easy route and do some Kool Aid dying as a science class with kiddo. 

After doing a bunch of research - I found some helpful information here and I really liked the color combination charts from this site - kiddo & I decided to take a rainy Saturday and dye some yarn and he would get science class points.

We soaked the yarn in lukewarm water and a drop of dish soap. As we were dying 3 different colors, but I did not want to do it in separate pots, I used mason jars. Our colors were to be a dark orange - we were going to try to blend 4 packages of orange and 2 package of Ice Blue Lemonade according to the color chart of the dyeyourownyarn website. Thanks to an insta-hot-water tab we dissolved the packages in 2 cups of hot water and poured this over our yarn in the mason jar. 
The second hank of yarn was going to be 2-colored - we used 4.5 packages each of Lemon-Lime and Grape. Each was dissolved in the hot water and poured over the yarn in the mason jars. Trying to avoid white spots I did the green first and then pulled the green half out of the mason jar and over to the other side so I could cover it with Grape.  Then all 3 jars were set in a hot water bath.

Everywhere I researched it said it would take 45mins to an hour for the color to absorb from the water to the yarn. I wonder if it was because I dissolved the KoolAid in hot water, but it was done within 15 minutes. The strange thing on the Orange - it had soaked up all of the orange - but left the Ice Blue behind. 

We rinsed the yarn out and now it's hanging to dry. We are happy with the results.