do you put anything in the middle?
do you have to use soda ash to soak them in like you do for regular tie dye?
if using dye, do you let the paste dry then spray the dye over them and then let the dye dry as well?
i am going to do a mickey, but people may try other designs, did anyone ever try painting the mixture into a stencil??
I made a bunch of these (4 sets?) a couple of weeks ago and they turned out great! No pics yet, though.
1. You mean inside the shirt? Yes. I cut up a trash bag and laid that inside the shirt. I used glue, and a bit of that did seep thru and stick to the trash bag, so good idea.
2. I started with white t-shirts, so I just used Rit (with a vinegar rinse) for the first "round" and dried them. Then the glue (let it dry), then the spray-on dye (from JoAnn's)(let it dry). Then ran them thru the washer and dryer again.
3. You probably could do a stencil. I did one set of swirled Mickey heads. I used some Tupperware lids for an outline, just drew around them with pencil, to give me a guide for the circles. But I also used the same idea to make shirts with the Sorcerer hat on them. I "swiped" the pic off of those free maps Disney sends you. Started with a big circle, then free-handed drew the hat in pencil and went back over it with the glue. It really wasn't
that hard to do, I mean, I can draw, but it wasn't very difficult. It really helped to do it in pencil first, 'cause you can't make any mistakes with the glue, and the pencil washes right out. All four shirts are slightly different but they all look nice. Anyway, yes, you can sure do other stuff besides the Mickey head, so long as it is a fairly straightforward line drawing.
The other thing I did, was let the kids do one shirt on their own, and they had a great time! It's an easy craft. They got to pick what to put on the shirt. The big pack of spray dye at JoAnn's has 6 cans and I still have a ton of dye left over.
