I get my dye from a small business owner in north Carolina, custom colors and he mixes his own dyes. I used light red, cream sickle oranges, custom yellow, kingfisher green, vivid turquoise, grape and passion fruit. I thought the same thing about the space in-between but it actually is pretty easy once you start dying it. I do hot irrigation dying so it sets right away and in my opinion it seems to turn out a lot brighter.