Love all the dyed MM shirts. I went a different route- I used my embrodier sewing machine and a Disk with all the characters on it and made a bunch of stuff with embrodieried stuff on it. Did 2 dresses and several shirts.
I then wanted something for Flower and Garden, and used a free downloaded floral wreath desige. I put a big one in the center and then shrunk the same design and put 2 smaller "ears" on the big floral center. I make 2 shirts this way. One had a large floral MM head in the center. The other had 3 smaller floral MM heads across the front.
For sewing/embrodier machine users-
I used the designs that came with my embrodiery program and just made them into circles, sized the different designs in 2 sizes for each head and then combined stitches. I created 5 different floral MM head designs this way.
Also Brother Sewing machine company is the Authorized Disney dealer, and they have at least 5 different disks of designs for use. NOT resale, as I understand. And some programs will convert the Brother disks to any othe sewing machine laungage. I have a Viking Hus. Designer 1. and the editing software, and have done a lot of Disney stuff with it, all for personal use!
I also combined hand fabric painting with embrodiery Charactes for a shirt or 2. For a dress I used an Applique MM head and put "hidden" MM's on it, one on the sleeve and one at the hem line near a side slit.Lots of fun!, specially since the dress if lavender with lime pooka dots on it, and I used a lime fabric as the applique fabric.
I will try and figure out how to make the digital camera/computer work together- they seem to have "issues" with each other when I am trying to get them to work together!
Also if you want to tye dye shirts and then have MM heads on them you can make stamps out of fun foam and use Dyna-Flow or other fabric paint to stamp the design. After dyeing, washing and drying you would stamp the MM heads, and follow the directions. There are also several other products you could use. I have used the color changing powdered Pigments that are also used in a lot of other crafting area. As long as you mix the powers with a permant fabric paint, not dye, they work great.
I get a lot of my stuff from a web site called Darma Trading Comp. in SanRafeal Cal. Fast, fun, and very easy to work with.
http://www.dharmatrading.com/
Also made a Cindy dress last year and used several heat set crystals on it. They do not wash off, and are used on wedding dresses and the Ladies Harley Davidson shirts. Lots of other stuff too.
http://www.suesparklers.com/
http://www.creative-crystal.com/
http://www.ejoyce.com/pmain?cmd=e_listmain
Both sites sell designs that have circles in different sizes that could make MM heads... or other designs. I like the 2 site a little more, they are some times cheaper and faster getting stuff to me.
great thread, and as you all can see, I love fabric, and fiber stuff! one can never have to much of it! for me it would be like to many trips to disney, and no one can ever go to many times!
