For the past week, I’ve been experimenting with Kool Aid again, this time with longer lengths of color for a more multi-striping yarn (check out Eunny’s blog for some tips for amazing stripe dyeing—such a talented knitter!). So, Cascade Eco Wool (natural color) in hand, I rewound the hank into about an 8 foot loop. I can’t even remember how much of which colors I ended up with, but I dipped into 3 bowls of a blueish-purple, a rusty orange, and a pale pale blue, and this is what I got.

Where the colors bled together a bit, spread some beautiful wheat and slightly greenish tones, really livening the yarn up. All wound up, it turned into this great looking sherbert-like mix of pretty colors, that I thought would be really cute knit up into a set of mittens and hat.

Here’s the first mitten all finished. I followed the Super Mittens pattern from Weekend Knitting.

I may add a white stripe or 2 of the original yarn when I knit the hat, just to break up some of rainbowy-ness. But they’re sure to make me a bit more cheerful when facing those bitter cold days in the coming months.