Everything Wool

Wool is easy to dye and you can get some pretty amazing colors from even simple household products. KoolAid creates some beautiful colors on wool and simple and easy enough that even kids can do it (with supervision!). You can even use the sun to help KoolAid dye your wool. Just put the KoolAid dye solution on the wool, put it in a plastic bag, then let it sit in the sun for a few hours until the heat sets the dye. You’ll know the color is set when the water becomes almost clear as the color sets into the wool. Kool Aid dying is not the most color fast way to dye wool, but the colors will stay nice for a long time.

Click here for how to Kool Aid Dye Wool.

When you are planning your colors for Kool Aid dying wool, keep in mind that lemonade gives almost no color and that some colors such as black cherry will shift and give different results than you might expect. If you are worried about the colors, you might want to snip off a piece of fabric or yarn and dye it first to be sure you get the colors you want. Some of my favorite colors are blue raspberry, lemon-lime, and orange – they look smashing together and they all come out bright and pretty when you try Koolaid Dying Wool.

So, you just scored your first fleece and you want to know how to clean it. Sheep are not known for their good hygiene, so raw wool is usually plenty dirty and can contain some really gross stuff. I found a great link to instructions for scouring wool at home. It contains some useful tips that would have saved me a lot of time (and some good wool) if I had found them before I started cleaning my first raw wool.

Click here to read about how to scour wool.