I love those bright colors. I'm going to have to go get some Kool-Aid now...

I love that yarn! Gorgeous colors! Have been meaning to try striping (I even have a few things of Kool Aid waiting) but haven't ever done it. Maybe the next rainy day at home w/ the girls for a good mess.....

Wow, that is a fun skein of yarn. I love the combination of colors! That would make some mean knee highs if you had enough!!

Wow, what a really pretty skein of yarn. I'm impressed! It looks like you and your helpers had loads of fun too.

Those look great! I want to try dyeing this weekend, but I want to try some Wilton's icing dye and haven't found any yet.

No way....this is way cool....i need to have this yarn. they are my colors, not yours :)

delurking..I read your blog every morning and so enjoy it. An audible "wow" here at my desk..the yarn came out great and the colors are so vivid. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself and your knitting expertise. Your son's are a hoot too!

What great colours - so vivid. It looks like lots of fun, but I'm not sure I've got enough pots to try it at home.

Fun fun fun!! Yeah, darn grape KoolAid always makes murk, alas...

very nice!i alwayts wondered how you got two colros together like that.. your photos show it very well!

Wow, that yarn looks AWESOME! I can't wait to see it knit up.

The boys are too cute ... they sure know how to make everything fun.

Ohh! I love it! It's so vibrant!

I've dyed a lot of yarn but never self-striping. I'm anxious to see how that knits up, too! :)

So that's how the self-striping yarn is made! I've been mildly interested in the dyeing side of knitting; your post has kicked me into the next stage. Since I'll be ordering some yarn from Knitpicks anyway, might as well get the dyeable.

Your yarn reminds me of a kite. I don't know why. It just does. Maybe because it is all fun happy colors. Nice job.

The dye job looks fabulous, I can't wait to see how it knits up, looking forward to the pictures. I'm looking forward to getting my yarn from knitpicks now to try my hand at dyeing too...

Beautiful results on the dyeing!

The yarn looks great!!! I definitely need to get some dye-your-own and dye-my-own!!! Thanks for the links, too.

Wow! It looks fantastic. Love those chairs, too :)

I love this skein! And I don't normally like orange... may do this skein myself, minus the purple. Very cool!

Such fun colors -- looking forward to seeing you knit this up. What will it become?

All in all, very Kool! ;-)

You're a knitting guru! What a YUMMY treat you in had in store for your viewers today! Tks!

Holy COW, that's gorgeous!

You, my dear, are a total ROCKSTAR! Look at how well you did! It's absolutely beautiful.

*Runs off to make sure you get to dye for me...*

Also, you already are out of the WTF Am I Doing Group. You hear me?

Thanks for the hook up here too!

that looks like a lot of fun! i'm dying to get some time off of work and play around with kool-aid :)

That's great - the colors are so vibrant!

I think your yarn looks great! I like to use the little squeezy bottles of food colouring to dye-- I admit to being a little afraid to use "real" dyes.
You might have more luck with purple with the acid dyes, though. I've done purple a few times with kool aid and food colouring and it always "breaks" into reddy- and bluey- purples.

Thanks for all of the information. Your skein looks great! I'm armed with 20 kool aid packets and I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my KnitPicks Dye Your Own.

Oh, I love it! You're going to have such marvelous rainbox socks!

Those colors rock, I love them

HOw awesome did that turn out!!!
How many packets of each colour did you use??

This is just too cool! Thanks for the infor. I'm in!

That is gorgeous! Thanks for the collection of tutorials, I've been meaning to try self-striping for awhile and it's nice to have all the resources in one place. :)

Oh no. Now I'm going to have to try that, because it looks GREAT! Here's another vote for how many packets of kool aid did you use? I'd love to try that with some sock yarn...

I have been toying with dying some self-striping yarn. This may have just sealed the deal. Now to order some dye-able yarn...

GORGEOUS yarn! That orange is so juicy looking!

Grape kool-aid makes a really difficult purple. I've had better luck blending my own kool-aid purple from red or pink and some blue - seems to make a more even color.

Those are absolutely your colors.

What beautiful yarn!!! I've been thinking about making some self-striping yarn and now it's a MUST. Please show us what it looks like when it's knitted.

Allison...two questions: 1) could my 11 year old daughter (who knows her way around the kitchen well enough to make a meal) dye yarn on her own as long as I was in the house? I have recently had a car accident in which my pelvis was broken in 5 spots and I'm not exactly moving around quickly in the kitchen, but she wants to start dyeing our yarn. 2) could you let me know again where you got the tee-shirt sweater pattern? Sorry, couldn't easily find it and got lazy. Thank you!

I don't know who was having more fun--you or the boys! They are so cute! Your yarn looks gorgeous, of course, like everything else you do. But I'm curious when you combine the different colors do you have knots?

Never mind my question about the knots. I just looked at your picture again and noticed that you didn't cut the yarn but separated it into sections.

Oh my GOSH! I did that back in December in the name of self-striping sock yarn, with mango and strawberry-kiwi. The mango's more golden-yellow, and the strawberry kiwi's a lovely non-neon pink. But I made the mistake of doing it late at night. (!) By the time I did the laps around the chairs, I was bushed. Fast forward to now, that yarn's sitting in my stash, half balled and half skeined. I take it out once in a while and lay it out and attempt to wind some of it. Then I get frustrated and pack it up again. Next time, I'll know to wind it into a smaller hank when it's done drying, just to make the hand-winding easier on myself. But it's pretty!

yay! for home-dyed-self-striping sock yarn!

the colors look great, and I'm with the others (and you!) who are anxious to see how it looks knit up. I found that koolaid was a fun (and fruity) stepping stone into playing with acid dyes. (I do wish the knitpicks yarn was superwash'd and have a few other types of yarn that I'm going to try using in the future.)

(and Yay! for yarning and yarn houses...)

Oh, my! That is beautiful! Makes me want to try out dying with Kool-Aid again. (My results never came out that well!)

Hey Alison! I just wanted to give you a big shout-out for your Yo! GaPants in Big Girl Knits!!! Awesome!!

It's popsicle yarn! :) It looks beautiful.

thanks for bringing this to my attention and your dyed yarn is gorgeous

So I just have to ask, do the colors without caffiene work less quickly or something? ;-) Beautiful results either way.

Great yarn! How many kool-aide packets did you use of each flavor?

must get knitpicks order in...

wow, i wish i had room and a stove and yarn to dye

That looks like a lot of fun, and the end result looks great!

Wow! Those are such vivid, bright colors! What a fantastic experiment. :D

WOW! I love the colors! So bright and vibrant! I can't wait to see how it knits up! Sounded like the boys also had a fun day yarning!
Sandee

That's the best Kool-Aid job I've ever seen!!

OMG! Alison! How cool. That's really yummy-looking yarn.

Wow your dyed yarn came out great. I'm jealous. I tried to dye with koolaid the other day and i am not happy with it. It is not even worth being posted about in my blog. I am going to overdye it this weekend. Your yarn looks so yummy! :)

No knitting comment, but a kid comment. I loved seeing your boys playing with their yarn houses. I wish I had taken more photos of similar fun activities when my now 18 and 19 year old sons were that age. It brought back some great memories.

Awesome! I haven't tried striping yet, so you have inspired me to give it a try. Have you used Easter egg dye? That's fun, too, and right now the dyes are on clearance at most stores.

What was the approximate yardage of the skein you dyed? I have some cream-colored wool I've been meaning to dye forever, but is it worth it if I only have 150- 200 yards?

Pretty! Can't wait to see how it knits up!

I'm sat here with my mouth hanging open, that is GORGEOUS!!!

That looks so fantastic (I'm usually such a lurker round here). I now want to try with some purple, gold, and green, to get socks that match my morris dancing colours!

I feel inspired.

Thank you!

Jane
~X~

Isn't Kool-Aid the funnest?! The best part is that you don't have to worry about poisoning your self or loved ones.

Wow, thanks so much for all the kudos, folks! I had a fun time dyeing the yarn and am so glad that you all think it came out looking okay.

To answer the few questions, I dyed a skein of Knitpicks dye your own sock weight, which has 440 yards and used just one packet of each color Kool-Aid.

Allie, I think it would be worth it to dye even a smaller skein of yarn. When I find I have just one skein of special variegated yarn, I like to use it to make socks with contrasting solid-color cuffs, heels and toes. If you have only a very little yarn, then use it for the cuffs, heels and toes!

Wow, those colors really pop together! I bet your house smelled good while you were dying. :)

THAT YARN IS TO DYE FOR! I can't wait to see what you do with it. Those colours! MmmMmm! Love your blog.

That yarn looks so pretty skeined up!

I was wondering how you wind the skeins back up when you are done? Do you just set up the chairs again? I'm assuming that if the chairs are that far apart that the skeins are too big for a swift. The other thing is that if you want a dye that is easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and a "real" dye, try One Shot which you can find at www.prochemical.com. I just love using their dyes and have pics up on my blog as well. I think what you did with Koolaid is amazing, good job!

Absolutely beautiful! I am anxious to see them all knitted up!

Those colors look great together! It'll be interesting to see how they knit up.

Looks fabu! And I'm another "awww..." for the boys making yarn houses.

Grape koolaid makes a better purple if you throw in a packet of red koolaid, too.

See you dye-o-rama-ing!

That is soooh cool. I'll have to give it a try one day.

absolutely lovey:)