Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I have done another batch of multi-colored garments, or at least hope I have. If I'm lucky, I now have two blue-and-purple exercise tops/bras, and one blue, purple, and white long-sleeved silk shirt. If not, the blue and purple are too similar and I won't have a multi-color effect, but I'll still have things I can wear to work out in. I'll know when they dry. But I've been getting a lot of nice comments on the green-and-purple from the first round of this, last year, and wanted to do it again.

The other thing that's certain is that once the garments are dry, I will need to wash the bathtub, because it also has blue streaks and spots. But it was due for that anyway, so a bit of added incentive may be for the best.

If I get results I like, I'll put photos up. The previous batch are on my Flickr page (rosvicl).

This is a technique I'm trying to copy from a web page, to get multi-colored effects that aren't tie-dye: crumple garment in a not-too-large-container, pour in one color of dye to not quite cover, then pour in a second, contrasting color. I used purple and emerald green. Wait a bit (in this case, about ten minutes), then add fixative. Wait an hour. A heaping tablespoon of each, in about a cup of warm water each. (The dye has been sitting a while, which means I may not get as vibrant colors as I otherwise would, but it's been sitting in powder form, so should be basically okay.)

At the end of the hour, rinse thoroughly in cold water to get the dye out, then wash.

I hope I've read this right; the instructions here compare to her regular dyeing recipe, and I hope I wasn't supposed to use urea (if I read it right, I wasn't).

Posting now to have some record of amounts. Will update with results.

If this works well, I will have one silk blouse and one sports bra/top in a green-and-purple non-pattern. Worst case, I write them off and dye the rest of the sports bras in just green or just purple, which is what I'll probably do with them even if this does work. I threw the sports bra in partly because the instructions suggest that cramming the fabric tightly is good, and I don't have a huge number of containers to work with here.

ETA: To a first approximation, the technique worked, in the sense that there are visible green and blue or purple areas on both garments. Once they dry, I will know whether I like them.