I love the smell of Kool-Aid and Vinegar

...it smells like Victory.





I was looking for some Wool-Ease to make some Easter slippers and couldn't find any! None at Hobby Lobby; none at Wal-Mart; four meh colors at JoAnn. I bought the one most suitable for the giftee, a skein of white with sparkles.





Could I dye it? Wool-Ease is 80% acrylic, so I wasn't sure, but I did a test strip and sure enough, it took a good bit of color. I wanted to do something variegated, and went with blue, green, and yellow. Still a lot of white showing on the yarn, of course, but it's pretty! I did some pink lemonade, too, but don't have a good picture.

I still have Hancock Fabrics and Michaels to check--I'd like to have something with a bit of natural fiber for these slippers--who would have thought Wool-Ease is seasonal! Maybe spring colors are coming out?

Bargain Alpaca

A nice day today, dinking about and going to see Watchmen (my review: AWESOME.) Went to Tuesday Morning and found this stuff for $3 a skein--100% alpaca! 100 yards! So I bought the 4 skeins that were there.

The color in real life is more green, so the yarn is blotches of teal. I'd like to try overdying it to something I'd like better--would using red give me something purply? My first thought was to use Kool-Aid because it's cheap and as far as I know doesn't need jars of powdered lye or anything else that would be a danger to myself and others, and I hear it leaves the yarn smelling all fruity, which makes me happy. From poking around a bit in Ravelry, though, it looks like you can use Wilton colors too, and heaven knows I have a right smart of those.

The yarn feels like it's been in the bottom of a bin for a while, very matted as alpaca is wont to get. I rewound the skein that came without a label and it looks like this now:

It looks more promising this way but it's still too teal for me.