Adventures in Dying Thread

A number of years ago, at one of the annual stitching festivals, I took a class in hand dying fabric and thread.  I have started stitching on one of my dyed fabric pieces, and I still have the other examples tucked away for future use.

My most recent experience with thread dying, however, was unplanned.  Here's my new recipe:

1) Pour some red fruit punch and put the glass on the side table.
2) Stitch some snow on a winter scene using off-white "parchment" colored thread
3) Add the thread to the side table.
4) Mix in one cat.

Here's the result:

Hand (er "paw") dyed thread using spilled fruit punch