More thneeds hit eBay

We've listed the first 50 or so bags on eBay.

I don't know if they'll sell... we'll see.

But I've just found the very most gorgeous listing photo ever for an item of tie-dye. What a cutie...

Purple and yellow

We're still thinking about the colour wheel. Purple and yellow forms the final of the three pairs of complementary colours, and is usually considered the most challenging combination to work with. We wanted to see what would happen if we applied the yellow without having left the purple to dry completely. The result was the shade of green known as a tertiary colour. 

Ummmmm....

We then experimented with different shades and tones of purple without the yellow.

 
And we listed them on eBay.

And then Tinier Boy was tired.

Green and red

Green and red are also complementary colours. We've been adding them to yesterday's orange and blue bags. 

Some results... 

Orange and blue

Orange and blue are complementary colours, which means that they're supposed to work well together. We were experimenting with various shades of orange, so I suggested we combine them with a navy blue in tie-dyeing some cream tote shopping bags.

Tiny Girl enjoyed rinsing out the fabrics between colours.

Meanwhile, Tinier Boy loved rearranging the cutlery drawers.









The finished bags were, well... a fantastic illustration of how easily blue can out-dye orange. I'm aware that the convention of this sort of blogging usually mandates an instagrammy snap of the final product, but I'll leave you with an image from Renoir instead. He balanced orange and blue together beautifully...