We cloth diaper Monkey and my favorite diaper is a Baby Kicks Fitted and a wool cover over top. Wool breaths, absorbs and releases moisture without transferring it to his pants and wears like iron. It does need to be hand washed but not frequently (I do ever few weeks) and lanolized (soaked in water with emulsified lanolin), which I do at the same time. I should add that I work for a cloth diaper store, Diaper Lab, doing customer support which both fuels and funds a cloth diaper addiction. Some wool soakers come in colours, but I have two that came undyed. When I bough the first I complained to my manager about the plainness and she suggested Kool-aid dyeing it.
The Aristocrats before. Boring.Now almost a year later the time has come. My Mum is a weaver so in addition to the usual childhood arts and crafts, we did a lot of fiber arts. I am sure we used more Kool-Aid to die wool then we drank. Mostly we died skeins of wool in mason jars in the sun. I still wear have a pair of mittens she made me from yarn I dyed (I was probably about five at the time). Kool-Aid dyeing is very easy, very colour fast and giving that you are using food stuff, very safe. The only downside is that it only works on protein fibers, like wool, and not plant fibers like cotton. I chose Grape and Tropical Punch which I thought would be blue, but is red. For a decent colour chart look here. This is pricey stuff and should set you back about 30 cents a package.
Here is what I did:
Wet wool. Mix Kool-Aid with enough hot water (tap hot) to cover the wool. The directions I found online suggested one pack to one skein. I used two in each pot. There is enough acid in the Kool-Aid that a mordant is unnecessary.Then keep the water hot, either in the sun or on low on the stove. Since it is cloudy and cold out, I put it on the stove and kept it at the hottest temperature that I could stand to stick my finger in. I like way the cream cuff at the top looks so I kept it out of the dye on the pull on soakers.
For snap soaker I wanted to try for an ombre effect but I neglected to pull it out/dip it in more. 
I set the timer for half an hour during that stirred them maybe half a dozen times. The purple soaker had absorbed all the colour during that time. 
The red became pink, but still had enough pigment left to do a second soaker. I changed the chopsticks up and tied them with hair elastics, which worked very well. 
I pulled them out and rinsed in cold water to cool them off. The colour did I saw in the pot is the same as the colour after the rinse, which is the colour they dried too.
Kissa's Wool LOVER Cover
The colour is a little mottled from the poor circulation of being in a small pot. I was too impatient to wait for the bigger one.
The colour is a little mottled from the poor circulation of being in a small pot. I was too impatient to wait for the bigger one.
