my first yarn dyeing experiment

I love beautiful, hand-dyed yarn. I've tried working with many different manufactured yarns, but so far nothing lives up to the subtle variegated colors created by the hand-dyeing process. If I could dye my own yarns, my crochet goods would be that much more original. So I watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how to dye yarn at home before I psyched myself up for trying it. Today I went with the only dye I had around, some black food coloring. Food coloring is perfectly acceptable and more or less not much different than using more 'professional' acid dyes. My color come out more chocolate than black, but I think it is because I didn't use enough dye to begin with. In my second pot, I decided to remove the skein before it soaked up all the dye. What dye remaining in the pot was blue; I put in a small wound ball of yarn to see what would happen. The result was the mottled purplish-blue-gray and white yarn on the right. I'm excited about how similar my dyed yarn looks compared to some of the yarns I was buying. I could easily get hooked...