Saturday was a very rainy day here in Eagle Valley so after straightening up the house I played with dyeing some silk ribbon. One of the yahoo groups has been chatting about dyes and we talked about using Kool-Aid and what vibrant colors it produced. So Kool-Aid is what I used. The mixture I used was a 1/4 of a teaspoon of Kool-Aid powder with a Tablespoon of water. Lemonade made a very nice light yellow...lime made a bright green...orange of course made a bright orange...and grape made a very dark purple.
To get lighter green colors I mixed lemonade and lime. Adding a little orange to the lemonade gave me a darker yellow. To get an olive shade I mixed a little orange with lime. I'm very pleased with the colors.
For the most part I followed Sandie's dyeing instructions..I microwaved them, then heat set them with the iron..after that I rinsed them in fabric softener. It was easy and not too messy...I didn't use gloves but the Kool-Aid has worn off my fingers already.
7 comments:
Thanks for this Iris...
the ribbons came out bright and beautiful...I have some kool-aid that Pat sent me quite some time ago, but have not been game to use it...I will now have a go!
Hugs Julia
They are really lovely ribbons Susan, particularly the Daffodil yellows and Olive greens. You did a great job with the Kool-aid...I wonder what it does to your stomach lining???
Great colors. You did well. I keep saying I am going to start working with dyes. One day!
The ribbons look terrific Susan, and if I can get Kool-aid here will try them myself. Great colours.
They turned out fabulous. Cool Aid can be brought in Aussie at the USA shop online.... lol might have to try some!
I came across your blog this morning, and saw this on koolaid dying, I'm so thankful for the info, I had just bought a spool of white silk ribbon and was thinking of trying the koolaid...I'll have to do that today!
Hi Jo,
I have wanted to dye some silk ribbon. I just tried my first SRE and just love the dimension and texture it adds. The small packages of silk ribbon I have found are rather expensive for the little bit you get. I think dying myself will be the way to go.
Happy quilting
Amy
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