I've dyed and gone to Heaven

So here is my nerdy-ness in all its glory! Wool yarn is soooooooooooooo nice and sooooooooooo very expensive. Like a small ball (and I mean small) of wool yarn is about $8.50 - 12.50. You can't even make one sock with that amount -- so you can pretty much forget about a sweater! So I found out that you can undo wool sweaters that you find at thrift stores that have either never been worn or hardly ever warn (meaning the yarn is still good). I bought this lovely doo-dad at a local thrift store for 3 bucks. Smashing, isn't it? I had already taken apart the first sleeve when I remembered to take a "before" picture. It took a LONG time to unravel --- long long long.



So after many hours of unwinding, this was my beautiful bounty:

That's about $50 worth of yarn


So now I want to change the color -- 'cause you know, I can. I figured since this was my first time I would use just a small ball as my test subject.


So I loosely bound it together to prevent it from tangling and then rinsed and "washed" it (you have to be careful about washing wool because it will felt)


Then I put it in the dye bath. I'm using America's favorite -- Berry Blast Koolaid (minus the sugar)



Then it's on to rinse.... wash.....rinse again.... rinse one more time.... there you go.....


Hang that beauty to dry.....


And Viola!! Strawberry success!