There wasn't anything wrong with this vintage ball of blue 100% wool with red and gold flecks. I had finished knitting a few hats with its sister balls and grew bored.

The wool was overdyed with Wilton Icing gel in teal, Fairies blue, Hannah Montana purple, brown, sky blue and royal blue.

Each mini-skein is .2 ounces, just enough to make a stripe on my next hat.

This is an especially cuddly ball of yarn, and great fun to knit with. But after knitting two hats, I decided to overdye the remaining two balls.

McCormick makes a 4 bottle set of Neon Colors of blue, green, purple and pink. The blue and purple are McCormick straight from the bottle.

The fuchsia and orange are mixed from McCormick red and yellow, and Wilton Fairies blue.

I used a tiny bit of color for each hank, so the original color of the yarn showed through.

This olive lopi-type yarn is a recycled hooded sweater and I had big hopes for this yarn. After all there was so much yarn!

Yes, the olive color was dark, but I thought I could get a few shades of brown and teal.

After overdyeing the yarn in four very dark dyebaths, I still have four hanks of olive yarn.

Well, rats.

I used McCormick red, Wilton blue, purple and brown. The dyebaths did go clear, so I know the food dye did bond with the yarn.

The overdyeing just didn't work....oh, well.

Maybe I will try black food color next.