I want to dye a springy, sage type green. What dye colors should I use?

I am thinking maybe some kelly green or bright green with some citrus yellow? or maybe seafom green

I have these greens:
seafoam
bright green
kelly green
chartruese
caymen isle green

I have
clear yellow
citrus yellow
marigold

I have blues too
sky blue
electric blue
baby blue

I have never done it but I would say bright green with a dash of red to warm it into a sage colour.......BUT that is a COMPLETE stab in the dark. You need to find someone who has LWI with sage and see what colours emerged.

I have acheived sage on a couple of different occasions. Sadly, I'm not on my home PC so I can't show pics...

Here's what I typically use:

* tiny, tiny bit of olive drab. I mean TINY.
* a good bit of seafoam.
* another TINY smidge of kelly green
* a dash or marigold or deep yellow; definitely use your marigold since the other yellows are going to be too bright. You need that red hue offered by the marigold.

If you put too much kelly green you'll get lime. I'm not sure what to suggest sice you don't have olive drab. I'm sure you could try it without, but it seems like it needs that dark hue to get to the right color. Maybe Bernice is on the right track with a TINY TINY bit of red, just make sure you get the right red. (I have no idea what the "right" red would be though. LOL I just know that some of them do funky things.) Olive drab has a lot of red in it, that's why it works so well.

My referance here (http://www.steinlaufandstoller.com/Fabric%20Dye%20Custom%20Colors.htm)
say: SAGE GREEN - 1 pkg Pearl Gray + 3 tsp Sea Foam Green
HTH

When in doubt, I always call Dharma's 1-800 number. They are usually very helpful.

I always use olive drab for sage. I don't think you should add red for sage. My LWI sage stuff has light blue and green tones, so I am guessing blue and yellow.

I will second not adding red to get sage. (Adding red to green should yield a brown unless the colors cancel each other out and you get a gray) Sage is a blue-based green, so you want to start with probably teh seafoam and then add blue, tiny bit by tiny bit, until you achieve the color you want.

Originally posted by anise
I will second not adding red to get sage. (Adding red to green should yield a brown unless the colors cancel each other out and you get a gray) Sage is a blue-based green, so you want to start with probably teh seafoam and then add blue, tiny bit by tiny bit, until you achieve the color you want.


That would be true if it were more than a tiny amount of red. I actually tried it today and it worked....I started with Kelly green added a little ceruleanand just added a TINY amount of red which warmed the green just enough to produce sage. The more I dye the more I like colours that are a combination of all three. You obviously have to go very light on ONE of the three or you get brown but the colour look more...hmm...real... somehow. I know when I was reading about colour theroy in University I read that nearly every natural colour has a certain amount of every primary in it and that stuck with me and has made my dying much more adventurous...when I first started dying I though that if I got even a pinch of yellow in purple it would turn the whole thing brown, but to my surprise it made a WONDERFUL colour. Anyone who has ever worked at a paint store knows that you can come at the exact same colour from many different ways so it is posible that a few of the recipes in this thread will work. WE have sage walls and I know that there was fushia in the mix when the guy mixed up the paint that is why I
suggested it. I will take a picture of my dye job tomorrow and do a dye n show :)...I know you all think I am crazy LOL

B's right. I just did the drip test with olive drab. It has mostly blue, then yellow, and a teeny tiny red, so little on red that you only see orange when you do the drip test.

NEVER QUESTION ME!!!:p

Do tell Allison...what is the drip test?

Why are we posting to each other and talking on the phone at the same time?

Anyway, the drip test is how I figure out the three primaries that dharma mixes to make thier colors. I take a teeny bit of thier dye and drop it in my white sink. The water in the bottom of the sink spreads the color enough that you can see all the colors.

I didn't know there was a drip test!

I always put a dusting of powder on my white washing machine top and spritz with a spray bottle of water. You can see all the individual colors that make up the particular color of dye.

Originally posted by Marina
I didn't know there was a drip test!

I always put a dusting of powder on my white washing machine top and spritz with a spray bottle of water. You can see all the individual colors that make up the particular color of dye.

Hey, see, great minds think alike, Marina :) There is no official drip test, I just call it that.

Black looks the coolest when you do it. Timmi and I were wishing we could dye something with the colors spread like that.