Last summer, after sitting around a bit reading and watching TV after my "retirement" from HP, I decided to try my hand at some tie dye. A few months before, I had gotten interested in batik but hadn't followed through on it. I thought I should probably start out working with dyes in small steps. Tie dye seemed to be an easy place to start as I had found a kit at Michael's . . . yep, that summer time project for kids was well stocked in the craft areas of stores. One thing lead to another and soon I was buying better dyes from Dharma Trading along with different products to use (detergent to use to remove sizing, soda ash). Then I started to buy better quality cotton t-shirts after using a lot of my old t-shirts for practice. I got into production of tank tops when I found some cheap cotton men's tanks at Target. Needless to say, I have been wearing a lot of tie dye and giving some as presents to friends and some (but not many, lol) I've been selling to make some money to pay for supplies. Sometimes I've had good results and sometimes I've had some failures . but it is all a learning
process.
Tanks a lot!!!
I developed much better technique and processes as I went along. I spent a lot of time reading on Dharma Trading and a few other places. Below you can see how I started to rinse the t-shirts after they were dyed and left overnight (about 24 hours) for the dye to set.
process.
Tanks a lot!!!
I developed much better technique and processes as I went along. I spent a lot of time reading on Dharma Trading and a few other places. Below you can see how I started to rinse the t-shirts after they were dyed and left overnight (about 24 hours) for the dye to set.
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