The great Yarn dye- With Kool Aid!

Ok, so I attempted to dye some yarn and rovings, so I watched a bazillion videos on youtube, joined the It's A Kool Way To Dye group on Ravelry, and then took the plunge!!

Here's what the color was originally:

I dyed a 100g bit of red roving with fruit punch and black cherry:

The actual finished color turned out just a hair lighter. This is right when the dying was finished.

 After I was finished with the roving, I plied the yarn I showed in the first pic of this post, and decided to dye it in citrus colors. Orange, yellow, and green.

The yarn is to the right side, the rest of the pot is taken up with a roving.

After re-skeining that yarn, it looked like this!

Started out with 101 yards of singles, ended with 44 yards of this gorgeousness!

As for the roving in the pot with that yarn? I'm working on it now.

It's making long variegated strands of color, No clue exactly how it's going to look after plying for sure, but it looks like it might have a bit of variegated quality to it!

I'll post my dying tutorial soon.

Handspinning yarn...

So a few months ago, when I had some money (I miss that, unemployed sucks, even worse when you can't get unemployment, but that's another discussion), I decided I was going to learn to spin yarn.

 I bought this drop spindle:
top-whorl-drop-spindle-double-whorl

And this roving:
domestic-56-wool-roving-8-oz

I used the spindle to do my handplied yarns, but the roving sat unused until a couple days ago.

 I'm not going to post a tutorial on how to do it, because there are a bazillion other tutorials out there and I watched many of them. But here is the finished product!

Before plying with thread

The finished yarn, 36 yards of wooly goodness!