Colour mixing for textiles

I am working on my next set of printed fabrics, and I am using some 'found' fabrics. In keeping with my Work With What You've Got ethos, I am using some fabrics that were the leftovers from someone else's projects- so not my choices really. Lots of neutrals, and purple! Not my usual choices of colours. It is stretching me a bit to make the colours work together.
I spent all of yesterday morning mixing colours, out of my comfort zone.
Really, I find purple scary.
Here are some examples of my experiments mixing dyes yesterday at the wonderful @eastsideprint_brighton smudged onto the backing cloth.
I am using transparent mixes of inks, so the base colour really affects the result - the sludgy colours on the green swatch are the same colours as on the purple and cream swatches. (I could use opaque inks but I wanted the pattern to sink in rather than sit on top of the fabric)
The bubblegum pink, red and bright blues are from my previous projects - the colours I usually go for
Will let you see the results soon.
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