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| Applying the colour with a basting tool. |
Here comes the fun! My kitchen smelled of Koolaid! I mixed up various flavours in pint jars and set them in the sink. My kitchen smelled GREAT!
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| Rainbow Dying with Koolaid |
Here is the second dye bath with even more colours. I was getting brave and even mixed Koolaid with food colouring drops in the water. It looks like one of those Clown Wigs doesn't it? The dye bath (with white vinegar added) needed to be put into a double boiler type affair. I set the casserole dish onto canning jar rings in a big soup pot with enough hot water to reach half-way up the casserole dish. Remember, the water had to be the same temperature as the dye bath so felting would not take place. I got the pot boiling and then kept it simmering for a good 45 minutes.
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| Nothing to rinse out...all colour gone! |
I could tell the dye had all been absorbed by the fleece because there was no colour left in the dye pot...all the colour had gone into the fleece.
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| Squeeze water out gently. |
The fleece needed to be treated very gently so as not to get the fibres tangled and matted. No felting yet.
As you can see here the colours become more subdued as the fleece dries on this wooden rack. Oh what fun!!! I can hardly wait to begin to make felt with my beautiful fleece.
