**Tie Dye Mickey ears shirts directions**NEW NEW PICS LAST PAGE**

[brettcw23]

You have to sew them to get the mickey head tight and cinched. No real sewing skills required here. It's a simple up and down motion (baste stitch) until you get the whole way around the Mickey head. Trust me, the hardest part about it is getting the thread through the eye of the needle!

 

[mssong85]

Ok, I will be brave!

 

[LockShockBarrel]

Pixie!!! I just saw you're back!! Ok well back as of almost a month and a half ago but I've been a bit of a slacker checking up on this.

 

[pbennett81178]

We are going to WDW during Mardi Gras week in 2014, so I was going to try some purple, green, and yellow shirts for everyone. Seems easy enough. Going to Hobby Lobby and Michaels today to get the dye. Any recommendations on a dye brand??

 

[Mamajama4]

Tempted to try, not sure i that creative!

 

[goodferry]

The dye that has worked best for me is dharma, which I ordered online.

As far a creative, I think you have to be more patient and thorough than anything. Whoever did it first was creative The hardest part is being patient and really getting the dye into all the creases!

 

[goodferry]

One of the shirts I made for our June trip

 

[goodferry]

And another one (I actually made 9 of this design)

 

[mssong85]

Just bought black, orange and purple dharma dye for me and DD. DH is black orange and green. Our Mickeys will be purple girls green for the hubs. I am also thinking of just doing black and orange for me and paint jack face on the mickey head. What do you think?

 

[zew0925]

Hi every one, I need some help. I have made a few of these, trying to get it right. I am able to do the Mickey head with no problem. My problem is that he dye is faded! I used tulip dye with urea and soda ash. They just looked really old and worn. I would love for them to be bright not faded. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help in advance!

 

[MagicMomma]

Hi every one, I need some help. I have made a few of these, trying to get it right. I am able to do the Mickey head with no problem. My problem is that he dye is faded! I used tulip dye with urea and soda ash. They just looked really old and worn. I would love for them to be bright not faded. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help in advance!

Honestly, although it's a bit of a pain, ordering the dyes from Dharma Trading is the best way to get bright colors. I've used their dyes for all of my shirts, and as long as you mix them according to the directions, they're a nice saturated color and don't fade with washing. I have some pics posted a ways back (maybe around page 120?) where you can see how bright they are. HTH!

 

[zew0925]

I haven't posted in a while....

Love these! They are so much brighter than mine. I used tulip dye and the have the faded look, old/warn look. I used sold ash and urea. Do the dharma dye really make a difference? I want them to be bright. Ay suggestions would be great I have tried it 4 times already, with urea and with out and the results are the same.

 

[goodferry]

Look at the t shirts themselves. They have to be 100 percent cotton

 

[brettcw23]

I made the tie dye halloween style but I silk screen printed the jack o lantern inside the mickey ears...

Hope it looks good too...

Anyone know how to get the purple stripes like this? (the ones intersecting the black and orange)

 

[jrp]

Boy pixiedust32 it looks really cool.

 

[mssong85]

Anyone know how to get the purple stripes like this? (the ones intersecting the black and orange)

I've seen shirts done with black stripes like the purple in that shirt. It was done using a thickening agent (like algaenate (sp?)) to make a gel. The gel coats the outside only and it won't soak into the shirt while it's batching. My DH and I are about to try it next.

 

[Cadyrose]

Anyone know how to get the purple stripes like this? (the ones intersecting the black and orange)

It looks like how I do a black rainbow swirl...

After doing the mickey heads, I twisted the shirt to make a swirl design with 6 wedges. I dyed each wedge the color I wanted on both sides. When all six wedges are done in both sides you flip the shirt and use black dye only on the bottom wedges.

For this short it looks like the same technique except the wedges were black and orange and using purple dye all over the bottom part.

I love the shirt...may have to do this for my daughter's school Halloween shirt...

 

[Nutz4Dizney]

PixieDust made shirts for my family for the 2009 MNSSHP and they were too cute. I need 6 shirts (2 YS, 1 YXL, 1 AM, & 2 AXXL) this time around and my son wants to help so we're gonna try doing this together.


I cut 8" Mickey heads with my cricut using heavy cardstock.
I bought 3 packages of the "Moody Blue" colors at Walmart for $3.00 each (they were on clearance )
I got the 100% cotton shirts at ACMoore 4 shirts (2YS, 1YXL, & 1 AM) for $10& 2 shirts (2 XXL) for $10
I got the 1 lb of Ash powder (need to mix it with 2 gallons of water) using 40% coupon at ACMoore
I pre washed all the shirts
Traced all the Mickey heads on the shirts already
I'm basting all the shirts today.

I think I'm almost ready to get started but I have 4 questions

Ash Powder:
1. Can I soak more than 1 shirt at a time in the same ash powder mix?
2. Can I reuse the same ash powder mix more than once?
I'm thinking I have 6 shirts I can soak 3 at a time.

Basting:
3. How far apart are your stitching?
4. Do you double thread or single thread your needle?
I was thinking the longer the spacing the less defined your Mickey head/ears will be. Then I thought the closer the stitching the harder it will be to pull out

OK I think that is it for now LOL

Thanks in advance

 

[mssong85]

I used dental floss and single thread. My stitches were about 1/4 inch. _____ about that.

 

[brettcw23]

PixieDust made shirts for my family for the 2009 MNSSHP and they were too cute. I need 6 shirts (2 YS, 1 YXL, 1 AM, & 2 AXXL) this time around and my son wants to help so we're gonna try doing this together.


I cut 8" Mickey heads with my cricut using heavy cardstock.
I bought 3 packages of the "Moody Blue" colors at Walmart for $3.00 each (they were on clearance )
I got the 100% cotton shirts at ACMoore 4 shirts (2YS, 1YXL, & 1 AM) for $10& 2 shirts (2 XXL) for $10
I got the 1 lb of Ash powder (need to mix it with 2 gallons of water) using 40% coupon at ACMoore
I pre washed all the shirts
Traced all the Mickey heads on the shirts already
I'm basting all the shirts today.

I think I'm almost ready to get started but I have 4 questions

Ash Powder:
1. Can I soak more than 1 shirt at a time in the same ash powder mix?
2. Can I reuse the same ash powder mix more than once?
I'm thinking I have 6 shirts I can soak 3 at a time.

Basting:
3. How far apart are your stitching?
4. Do you double thread or single thread your needle?
I was thinking the longer the spacing the less defined your Mickey head/ears will be. Then I thought the closer the stitching the harder it will be to pull out

OK I think that is it for now LOL

Thanks in advance

I soaked 4 shirts together. Doing 3 and 3 will be fine. So Yes to both 1 and 2.
3. The closer the better. It will give a nicely defined head. Closer together doesn't impede your ability to get the thread out. I used dental floss for mine, rather than thread and I think I double threaded.