Dyeing Wool with Wilton

The experiment continues! :-)

Okay, for those of you who need recipes to get started, here is how I dyed this wool using Wilton's Delphinium Blue Icing Dye. I put 4 quarts of cool tap water into a stainless steel dye pot, added 3 tablespoons of citric acid and stirred vigorously, then I added 1/4 teaspoon of Wilton's Delphinium Blue to the dye pot and stirred again. It looks like a peacock green when mixed in the pot, before the wool.

I put 4 ounces of dry wool roving into the pot. If you prewet the wool, the color will be less intense.


Notice the teal color...nothing like what I would have thought of as Delphinium Blue.

The color splitting actually occurs in a logical way. The pink/violet is binding on the bottom of the wool and the aqua on the top.


Washing it in warm water with a little dawn detergent.

And the final product...

Tomorrow I'll post the pictures for Brown, Black and Red Wilton Icing Dyes.