Aw Gee Marg.......
I'm a "by the seat of my pants" dyer. I mix colors as I go and pretty much use the activated dye method.
I keep concentrated dyes with urea in the dye fridge so I always have dye ready. This is from Ann Johnston's book "Color By Accident", a wonderful resource.
I also have a mix of soda ash and alginate and urea (and water) also in bottles in the fridge.
I use quarter cup and cup size squirt bottles. I use the tiny bottles a lot.
So when I'm dyeing, I pour a little dye into my bottle, thin it or not, and fill the rest up with the alginate, soda ash, urea mix or perhaps just soda ash water and then often shift the color with eye dropper drips of another color.
I tend to use many colors and usually things come out really interesting. I have made "dogs", but even they can be used as cut up pieces with other cut up pieces.
I began to use strange colors together after reading somewhere on Paula Burch's website,
http://www.pburch.net/, (another wonderful resource) to try this. She gave an example of purple and orange, not mixed, but applied separately.
Also in M. Fowler's tiedye video, in his chaos shirt, he uses at least 10 colors applied with squirt bottles in a vigorous manner, all over the shirt. Talk about mixing colors on the fly.
So, you see, I can't really tell you what colors I used on the wall hanging because I mix so much, in the bottle and on the fabric (often vigorously, haha).
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k. taltre
ps: I watched that part of Fowler's video this morning and he just used 7 colors on his chaos shirt.
