The only color shirt we could get is yellow. Any suggestions on colors to use?

Name: Rene

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Message: I am doing tye dye with a group of handicapped kids and the only color shirt we could get donated is yellow. Any suggestions on colors to use? It would be greatly appreciated.

Yellow is not a bad choice at all for a base color. Good colors to apply on top of it are fuchsia, red, orange, green, turquoise, blue, navy, brown and black.

I'd advise you to avoid purple, because purple mixes with yellow to make brown, and avoid overlapping red or fuchsia with blue or turquoise, since these mixtures make purple. Fuchsia on yellow makes red, while blue or turquoise on yellow makes green. Green on yellow will make a more yellowish green, while red on yellow makes red-orange.

For very bright colors, place fuchsia, red, and/or orange on one part of the shirt, and blue or green on another part of the shirt, with an undyed yellow section in between.

Please let me encourage you not to use all-purpose dye, such as Rit, for tie-dyeing. It seems inexpensive at first because each box is only about two dollars, but each box contains mostly salt and detergent, with only enough dye for one shirt. In addition, the colors you can get from tie-dyeing with all-purpose dye are dull and last for only a few launderings. A good tie-dyeing kit, in contrast, will color a great many t-shirts; the Jacquard Products tie-dye kit will color at least fifteen adult-sized shirts, and probably twice that many children's shirts. In addition, the good tie-dyeing kits are easier and safer to use, since they do not require hot or boiling water, and the clothes you dye with them stay bright a hundred times longer. This is because they use a much better sort of dye, fiber reactive dye, which is more suitable for tie-dyeing than all-purpose dye is.

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Posted: Sunday - July 24, 2011 at 01:58 PM

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The only color shirt we could get is yellow. Any suggestions on colors to use?

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