Kool-Aid Party

Well, now that I'm a few weeks into the second trimester, I'm thrilled to report that my morning sickness has backed off to almost nothing. Though I've had more excitement than I wanted this past few weeks, the baby is doing great. I started feeling movement a few days ago, which was pretty exciting :)

Since I've been down more than I would like lately, I've been working on several different crafts to keep my hands occupied. I always have a few knitting projects I'm working on, and I've been doing some embroidery as well, but I decided to try something new last night.



I had some natural colored ivory yarn sitting in my knitting case waiting for me to do something with it, so I decided to try my hand at yarn dying for the first time. I found some directions online for dying yarn with kool-aid, so I had Tom run to the store and grab me a bunch of packets of kool-aid to make some red and yellow dyes. It wasn't nearly as messy a process as I thought it would be, though I had to send Tom back to the store for more kool-aid when I was halfway through the process because the color just wasn't as developed as I wanted it to be.



I didn't exactly get the colors I was expecting, but I'm rather proud of my new balls of yarn. Now I just have to figure out what I'm going to make out of them.


-Amy