Dyeing to experiment

OK all you indy dyers out there do not be alarmed, I don't see me ever becoming a pro at this. But; I do occasionally get the urge to play with color and wool. So yesterday I got out 3 old canning jars, you know the kind, the ones with the glass domed lids and wires on the jars? I have some old wool batts and I tore one apart. In one jar I mixed 2 packets of grape Kool aide and 1 packet of fruit punch. The vinegar water turned a deep burgundy like color and then I stuffed in soaked wool and put the lid on. That one I set outside on a black plastic base to a kick punching bag.
The next jar I used Wilton icing colors of Peach and skyblue, the mixing guide said it would make Mulberry. I used vinegar water again and stuffed the jar with wool, then set it outside on the porch rail in the sun.
The last jar I was trying to make teal. The color guide said use yellow and royal blue, well I only have sky blue but i mixed it anyway. The color of the vinegar water was a nice dark teal like blue, so I stuffed in the soaked wool and set it on the porch rail in the sun with the other jar.
The water was almost boiling when I added the color and set it out and I ended up leaving them outside all afternoon and overnight until about 2:00 today. I opened the Teal jar first and poured out the water, hmmm blue water. The wool is a nice shade of green, the blue did not soak in very well.
The next jar was the Mulberry wool, again I took off the lid and poured out....blue water. Hmmm! The wool is a very pretty blend of peach and yellow, like pale flames? It is a pastel almost not very dark like I was expecting.
The last jar; the Kool Aide jar. It too shed blue water and the wool is a dark red violet sort of color.

I took a picture of them drying in the bathtub, I would put them outside to dry but know I will forget them and later tonight I am going to a lavender weaving class, so chances are they would end up outside over night and I am afraid an animal would run off with them or the wind would send them to Timbuktu.

Before I went to Sock Summit last weekend I dyed a small amount of wool with sky blue and yellow and got a really nice variegated green. When they are all dry I will spin them and knit something small with either stripes or try stranded knitting designs. I will have to see how much yarn I get. I used a whole batt so it is an ounce or two of wool. I will weight it before I spin it.

Mulberry on the left Teal on the right

Green wool dyed last week

 2 grapes and a fruit punch Kool Aide

I was liking the blue at the bottom and white at the top on this one but by the time I took it in it was all blue.

You can see that the yellow is at the top and peach is in the wool.

This is the wool out of the dye and drying.