Snow Dyeing Yarn with KoolAid

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

The yarn used in this video is 100 g of 100% wool fingering weight yarn shrsl.com/lhwx (KnitPicks Affiliate link)

[@ooohlaa13]

In FL, no snow or I would try this, but I am so frugal that I would have placed it over a skein of yarn underneath atop a plastic liner and see what you get with all the dripping dye ... worst case you could overdye it or speckle it etc. I admire your bravado in how you freely experiment and you have enriched my life so much, you make it all so playful and user friendly yet with professional looking results. Bravo!!!

[@mchllwoods]

Looks like a giant rainbow snowcone!

[@ginastrong519]

I am so excited, in our part of SE Iowa we are supposed to begetting 6" of snow today. We have hardly had any snow this year. I have been waiting to try this!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Yay!!! Looking back at that snow pile is hilarious because I had to SHOVEL all of that snow all by myself! (It was also superbowl weekend when I filmed these videos.)

[@breakmydreams]

Awesome color and fun to watch :-D

[@carollizc]

Most of my roving lately has been gifted to me by my goddaughter.if she were to see this, I imagine that I'd be gifted with a lot more, and a whole lot of Koolaid. In purple, a long with a request for a Dr Who length scarf. I also have a Rambo lamb fleece to spin up. I'm told that the grey wool accepts dye really well, so it might be a lot of fun to do this with that, to. I love, though the effect of broken colours from food colouring. Amazing videos, all of them

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much! A Dr Who scarf would be a HUGE undertaking, especially if you're making it with handspun. But I'm sure that it would be well loved.

[@KitKalico]

would love to know what this looked like when it was worked up in what ever project you did!

[@olimaroun1989]

Wow beautiful!

[@Rubikorigami]

Hey, nice vid! :D I just tought about a similar technique while watching this video : what if you froze the colored water into ice cubes and then put them randomly on the flattened out yarn just like the snow, and the finish the process normally? I think that would end up with cool patterns.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

It sounds fun! I think you would also get different patterns laying ice cubes on top and then sprinkling those with the dye.

[@Sylvia-Storm]

I’m going to try this as not usually much snow in the UK.

[@katrinawest5182]

I just love finding generic anomalies within anything. Did you notice that @ 14:01 a kangaroo (minus the ears) emerged on the right side? I just love things like that. And kangaroo's always remind me of alpacas and llamas. More yarn!!! LOL Anyway, I just thought it was neat.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

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[@mommyandmissy]

Thanks. Cool cute

[@pathowes32]

How fun.. I would like try this too

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Winter is coming! ;)

[@natasha1206]

idk if you live close to a Walmart, or a WinCo, but they have the greens and blues. also, with how much you use the Kool aid, you might buy it from Amazon in bulk. instead of the ice blue twisted Kool aid, I think you would get a nicer toned blue with either berry blue, or even the regular blueberry lemonade. it won't be as light, but it's a lot easier to find than the ice twists.

[@CorenaGaroutte]

Have you ever tried using 2 or 3 packets of yellow? I wonder if you would have a stronger yellow.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Not with this technique, no.

[@deborahwilt6003]

I love this!! I have some yarn that was given to me for my birthday last year and have been saving it to dye, but have not came across a video until now that I liked enough to try my hand at dying it with KoolAid. I do have a question though. I want to use one color on a skein. Which color would you suggest using and how many packs of KoolAid? I want the color to be vibrant and beautiful,because it was given to me as a present. Should I choose a skein to do a gradient. How would I do that? Also since we don't have snow, what would the process be? Please help? And thank you for such an awesome video

[@natasha1206]

OOOO have you ever thought of trying the Kool Aid concentrate in those little squeeze bottles? might be worth a try!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Natticate I haven't tried that. I love new ideas! thanks!

[@jessicabuero690]

What I'm curious about is how long do the colors last in the yarn through wear and washing. Does kool aid and food coloring fade quicker over time than say a commercial acid dye

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Jessica Buero I don't wash my handknits a bunch but I have items dyed with food coloring and koolaid that have lasted years with no fading. I have yet to do a side by side comparison, but I didn't get any fading from my wash test. I'm suppose that commercial dyes may last a bit better since they are formulated to dye fibers.

[@ajlawrie6442]

Jessica Buero Sun fading is bad and after every wash there is fading although with care it can last quite awhile, just gets paler over time. some will say theirs doesn't fade but it does. Remember although many say it's dyeing with koolaid, koolaid is not a dye, it's a stain as is food color

[@jahlissa0317]

Nice job. .........I will like to do that

[@Roxanne5943]

i have done this but use a baking pan.i put yarn in baking pan put snow on top then dye.

[@annacord9561]

I think I would have sprinkled the colors parallel to the sides of the tub instead of perpendicular so that the red wouldn't run down to the orange, etc. possibly leaving more yellow and blue in the final product.

[@MsSarah999]

I don't have a microwave but there is plenty of snow here in Manitoba. Can I bake it? Like in the oven? Thanks.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Sure! Let it heat in the oven (using oven safe dishes etc) for 30 min or so at 175 F (120 C). You don't need to get it boiling or steamy for this to work. Good luck!

[@felicitycrowe6971]

I wonder what would have happened if you'd had another skein in the bowl underneath?

[@chasing_happiness]

would jello powders work the same? green should be easier to find then. or would the gelatin mess up the yarn?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

LadyJolynna I wouldn't want to deal with getting the gelatin out of the yarn but maybe I should test this out for fun sometime. :)

[@chasing_happiness]

ChemKnits Tutorials that's what I was thinking. but with jello you use hot water to dissolve then cold water to dilute. I wonder if you used just cold if it would still gel. hmmmmm. if you don't I may have to try it myself. lol!

[@chevydevy7891]

Would I be able to do this with roving with the same technique?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Yes! I just uploaded a video kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHK3hJ-thrmhrdU and I've got another one of snow dyeing roving with KoolAid that needs to be edited together.

[@chevydevy7891]

ChemKnits Tutorials Ok thanks.

[@ruthannjones5873]

I actually like the undyed areas. Have you ever made Kool-Aid ice cubes and allowed those to melt?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I love the undyed areas, too! It spun up into a really fun yarn. I haven't tried using ice cubes with food coloring/kool aid yet but it is on my list!

[@kelseykleynenberg6146]

Does kool aid stay on the yarn? I want to dye my first ever sock blank but nervous on what dyes to us

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Food coloring does stay on the yarn as long as you heat it! I have a winter hat with the first 100% wool I ever dyed over 8 years ago and the colors are still super vibrant. Food coloring is less light fast than commercial dyes, as it was designed and approved for food vs textile coloring, but for the fading I've seen I had to leave an object in direct sunlight for months. Some others have observed some fading with direct sunlight on a smaller time scale. I hope to explore the fading a bit more this summer.

[@simmy260881]

What did you end up knitting with it? :)

[@jodiekingsley5181]

Have you try drying yarn with crayons from jodie

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I think it would be hard to get the wax out of the yarn. Right now I'm open for trying many things, but chocolate, wax, and dairy are not really on my list. ;)

[@CorenaGaroutte]

You can't find green and blue koolaid at your store? That sounds odd to me lol. You must be in a very small town

[@Rubikorigami]

Maybe you should put it on a flat surface and not allow dripoff then.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

If you left it on a totally flat surface, you would end up with a brownish red where the liquid pooled. This would have worked better on mesh versus a drying rack because the snow wouldn't fall off so easily and I could have stacked more snow around the edges.

[@gaildaniel647]

Look,s like a big ty dye icicle

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I tend to lean more towards a snow cone myself. It really makes me miss those days as a kid trying to get as much of the brightly colored flavoring as possible...

[@pixxiknits4979]

I've used koolaid for dyeing with ice. It came out really nice. It's on my channel if you wanna check it out.

[@dainka65]

lmao watching this is 2019 and the Patriots won AGAIN!