The Kool-Aid Coat

Kool-Aid is a great dye. You know, if you have ever gotten the dry powder on your skin when you are making it--it dyes natural fibers/skin really well. Works on wool! Vinegar helps to set it.

Before off-white 100% serious wooly thrifted coat. Missing buttons.

Strawberry/cherry/black cherry kool-aid after. Use COLD water, or wool will shrink. (I dissolved powder in a cup of hot water and then added to cold-bath tub submerged coat.) Slight ombre effect, muted and variegated, but very, very cool! Brown buttons sewn on with variegated pink thread.