Purple food coloring is fun to play with because when you dye yarn you can get the colors to break apart into the pinks and blues. What will happen if we take a couple bare yarns from KnitPicks http://shrsl.com/u40u (Affiliate Link) and attempt to break some Grape KoolAid through dip dyeing?
Video Contents:
[0:00] Introduction and Grape KoolAid Ingredients
[0:52] Bare Felici Yarn http://shrsl.com/u40z - Presoaking in plain water for at least 20 min. This is a 75% superwash merino / 25% nylon blend
[2:10] Mixing the dyebath. 9 cups of water + 4 packets of grape KoolAid
[2:53] Dip dyeing hte Felici yarn in the Grape KoolAid
[5:25] Removing the yarn after 5 min in the pot
[6:43] Washing the Yarn
[8:45] the finished dry Felici yarn
[10:44] Setting up for round 2
[11:38] Dip dyeing the 100% Peruvian Highland Wool worsted weight yarn (KnitPicks Wool of the Andes http://shrsl.com/u411) into the Grape KoolAid
[13:00] 5 min later, removing the yarn from the pot
[13:34] Washing the yarn
[14:18] Comparison of the finished dried yarns and conclusions
Watch the first breaking with Grape KoolAid Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpyPSpjEJo
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