Move Out Dye Job Follow Up
Here is the follow up on my move out dye jobs now that I have had time to get them all worked up into a few patterns. Or I could title this post, the trouble with fuchsia or maybe the trouble with discharging lol!
Basically what I have learned the hard way is that as a rule Fuchsia does not like to discharge and play nice with other colors, I should have taken the jacquard technical info sheet found on their website more to heart.
Basically as it states on the sheet some colors discharge better than others, this means to me that those colors that discharge better will will mix more with the others, and the sheet even states that if you use a low discharge dye with a high discharge dye you will get some interesting color combos. Here's the exact example of the turquoise and lemon yellow mixing on one of my projects that worked out really well.
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| Charleen Doily by Olga Shalaeva |
Silly me, I then went ahead and tried to use 2 low discharge dyes together in Fuchsia and Turquoise, I still got some decent purple on the color transition here but not as much as in previous between Fuchsia and Aqua.
I don't seem to have had good luck with this Fire Engine Red and Fuchsia mix either, pretty stark contrast there, and the fuchsia didn't seem to strike much on the lighter fire engine red either, poor thing, this ones getting frogged.
I may in the future also try experimenting with Fuchsia a bit, it's considered a tough color to work with sometimes because it is hard to dissolve, sometimes does better mixing up in hotter water, and takes a long time to batch. I also take into account the weather at the moment is not the warmest and maybe that affected the batching. Maybe in the future I may even consider mixing Fuchsia with urea to make it more soluble and wet for longer while it batches.
Ah well, will frog this poor color combo and add it to the practice ball I use for working up a new pattern to test it out.
The Second and 3rd color ways mixed up and worked out pretty well. The Fuchsia, Turquoise and Aquamarine worked out alright, but I have seen better results with Fuchsia over Aquamarine.
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| Fuchsia, Turquoise and Aqua, on Birgitta by Zoya Matyushenko |
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| Some mixing between Turquoise and Fuchsia, but I've gotten more out of Fuchsia and Aquamarine. |
And the 3rd, turned out like a little dupe of my Elune murky march sunrise, just with Fire engine red in the center instead of Deep Yellow this time. I think the Stephanie pattern is a really great pattern for gradient patterns, plus it's fun to make!
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| Pattern Stephanie by Olga M. in Fire Engine Red, Deep Yellow, Aquamarine |
So far what I have found is that Jacquards technical info is accurate, however not all of their colors list their discharge rate, so I will add my 2 cents here as well, on a scale of high, medium, low.
Lemon Yellow - High - Will mix with nicely to create another color when mixed with primaries, otherwise good color transition flecks with colors like deep purple and lilac.
Golden Yellow - Medium - so far the only time I have seen it mix to create another color is with aquamarine which created a grass green color, otherwise the color transition flecks are there but limited
Bright Orange - Medium-High - mixes with most colors, depending on the color may come out muddy, transition flecks are minimal
Aquamarine - High - Often mixes into other colors, even mixes well with fuchsia to create pale purple, decent color transition flecks
Fuchsia - Low - Seems to not play nicely with others except Aquamarine, does not create great color transition flecks
Turquoise - Low-Medium - mixes nicely with lemon yellow to create green, will get some small amount of purple when mixed with Fuchsia but not as much as Aquamarine. Not very good for creating color transition flecks.
Bright Green - Medium - Doesn't often mix with other colors to create much more than muddy color or a slightly lighter or darker green, but creates lovely transition flecks under most colors.
Peach - Medium-High - Mixes well with other colors, some with muddy results
Deep Purple - Low-Medium - Good color transition flecks from this color, but not a lot of mixing, also often breaks/splits to a slightly more lilac purple sometimes.
Marine Violet - Low-Medium - can mix to create muddy color over bright green, decent color transition flecks
Navy - Medium - mixes nicely with carmine red, good color transition flecks over lighter colors
Nebula Navy [Dharma] - Low-Medium - Haven't tried this one too much yet, but gives good color transition flecks.
Carmine Red - Medium - Some decent color mixing with Navy, good color transition flecks
Fire Engine Red - Low-Medium - Does not seem to mix with other colors much even with another primary like golden yellow, but has some decent color transition flecks over lighter colors.
Magenta - Medium
Hot Hibiscus [Dharma] - Low-Medium - Doesn't seem to mix much with other colors, not even a muddy color, but it does make some decent color transition flecks
Lilac - Low-Medium - Doesn't mix well with other colors, some decent color transition flecks.
Chocolate - Low-Medium - doesn't seem to mix with other colors much, but creates many color transition flecks.
Warm Black - Doesn't seem to mix well with other colors, but creates lots of color transition flecks.
I guess for me discharge rate isn't just about its ability to mix with other colors to create a new one as but also it's ability to overlap onto the white or lighter spots of the color before it to create a speckle or plied look to the color change.
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| An example of 2 colors turning into another, here we have golden yellow mixing really well with the Teal to create a kind of grass or chartreuse green. Not what I had wanted in this case but good to know how these 2 colors work together. |
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| Not a lot of mixing or speckling going on here between the Hot Hibiscus and Bright Green. But between the Bright green and Nebula navy you can see the kind of speckling I'm looking for on the transition. |
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| Here you can see how well Lemon Yellow works together with Deep Purple, not lots of mixing of color but lots of flecked color transition | . |
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| Celadon over Bright Orange, creates a lightly muddy color mixture but no white streaks or spots left undyed. |
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| Peach under Turquoise, lots of color mixing into a muddy color |
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| Lilac over Lemon yellow, for another example of how Lemon Yellow interacts with color |
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| Good example of Aquamarine mixing together with that difficult color Fuchsia |
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| Bright green and marine violet, some mixing to create a muddy transition, but not much. |
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| Golden Yellow, Carmine Red, Navy, not a lot of mixing between yellow and red but decent color transition, with some mixing between carmine red and navy, navy has good color transition |
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| Golden yellow, Chocolate brown and Warm black, the warm black can mix a bit with the chocolate brown, but mostly creates lots of color transition flecks |
