Tie Dye Instructions for Spiral Mickey Shirt

[mom2mykids]

Here are my stitch and tink shirts.

WOW!!! Those are great! I hope you post how you got the characters to come out so perfect!

 

[Imagoofy1]

Miz -- the shirts came out great ---- perfect pics on them, GREAT JOB ---how'd you get them to come out so good

 

[Marshay]

Marshay - the shirts look great! When are you going to Disney? We leave Saturday and coming on on the 8th/

My DH will be so glad when I am through with all this. I used bleach on the 4 I did for my family and messed 2 of them up. So I did a new one for DH and DS. Then theirs turned out so good, I redid mine and dd's so they would all look the same - no bleach. Then I did 2 more for my neice and her dh because theirs turned out in a big blob. Theirs turned out great. Then I decided to try to fix the 2 blob ones I did for my neice and her dh by going back over the Mickey Head. I'm washing shirts right now.

OH, my, that is a LOT of shirts!!

We leave on the 15th of Sept for 10 days so we'll miss each other...

 

[Marshay]

Here are my stitch and tink shirts.

OH, I love them! Esp the stitch one -- your blue and yellow rings around stitch are perfect!!

 

[mom2mykids]

Miz Diz, did you use iron transfers for the Stitch and Tinkerbell?
Marshay, we arrive on the 16th, where are you staying? we will be at POR.

 

[Marshay]

Miz Diz, did you use iron transfers for the Stitch and Tinkerbell?
Marshay, we arrive on the 16th, where are you staying? we will be at POR.

We are on-property at BCV on the 16th and switch to AKV on the 23rd for 2 nights. We stayed at POR when it was Dixie Landings and Loved it! Hope to run into you in the parks -- we'll have our LGMHs on!

Hey, post a pic so I know who to look for!

 

[Miz Diz]

I used a paint pen that I bought at Joann's for the tink and stitch ones. I got a picture off the internet, printed it on cardstock and cut out the shape. Then I just traced onto the shirt and let it dry 24 hours. I did apply a 2nd coat. Then I did the tie dye.

Here are some of my mickey shirts.

 

[Marshay]

I used a paint pen that I bought at Joann's for the tink and stitch ones. I got a picture off the internet, printed it on cardstock and cut out the shape. Then I just traced onto the shirt and let it dry 24 hours. I did apply a 2nd coat. Then I did the tie dye.

Here are some of my mickey shirts.

I like your mickey shirts, too. I like the colors you used to give it a softer look.

 

[Who'syourMickey]

Marshay,

I am using dyes from the dharma trading company too. I just used the bleach pen around the mickeys and now am washing the shirts. I did lime green disboard mickey heads, with a consentric yellow cicrle, followed by a spiral of blue, purple, orange and red. It ended up that there was a large chunk of fabric on each shirt, just past the consentric circle that did not get dyed. I have lots of dye premixed left in all colors but yellow. I have leftovers of all of the soda ash, urea, and turquoise and fushia red powder left so the chance remains that I could continue working on these shirts to improve them.

Shelly

 

[Marshay]

Marshay,

I am using dyes from the dharma trading company too. I just used the bleach pen around the mickeys and now am washing the shirts. I did lime green disboard mickey heads, with a consentric yellow cicrle, followed by a spiral of blue, purple, orange and red. It ended up that there was a large chunk of fabric on each shirt, just past the consentric circle that did not get dyed. I have lots of dye premixed left in all colors but yellow. I have leftovers of all of the soda ash, urea, and turquoise and fushia red powder left so the chance remains that I could continue working on these shirts to improve them.

Shelly

Yes, I had to go back on 2 of the shirts and redo the dye. These were actually the 2 that my DH did, but who's keeping track?!? Next time I would make sure to just do a large bundle w/rubber bands...I think we had some of the shirts more into a "ball" shape instead of a "pie", and that's what made it hard to get the dye down in the center.

Because I was impatient, I didn't tie off the Mickey heads again but just bunched the MH and covered in a plastic bag w/rubber band. However, I got some bleeding into the MH, not much but you can see it.

Since I did the crystal method, it was easy to just re-sprinkle the dye on directly to where I wanted it to go -- not sure how it would look putting the wet dye on there but I think others have done it.

Anyway, show your pics once the shirts are done! We love to see all kinds of shirts on this thread.

 

[Tynk13x]

Thanks for all the great tips. I might have to do this for our trip next weekend.

 

[Who'syourMickey]

Thank you for making this thread. I made the mickey heads green in honor of the disboards since recieving so many tips here for our daughter's wish trip.

I don't know if I should just leave well enough alone or to try to dye the ones with very little dye on their fronts more.

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My favorite

I didn't put mickeys on the backs, and the backs had more dye on them

I guess I am not super happy with all of them...but not too sure how to fix botched spirals or if there is a way to recover from this.

 

[Marshay]

Now my DH liked the white spots on his shirt -- I didn't and wanted more color, but that's just a preference thing.

When you are all together as a group, you are all still going to look wonderful -- with lots of color or with some white spots! I don't think you have to redo the shirts -- they turned out fine with character!

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That said, if you really wanted to fix the 'blotched spirals' as you called them, in a quick way, just add the dye like I did -- lightly bunch up the wet shirt with rubber bands where you want the dye to go, sprinkle on DRY dye, then put soda ash on just enough to get it wet, put in plastic bag and wait 24 (preferred) hours. It won't be a spiral but you will have more dye on the shirts. Just remember to bag up your Mickeys with rubberbands so they don't get the dye.

 

[sjlupin]

This is an amazing project! I have read through all 19 pages of posts and the tips are great and the photos are wonderful!

I really want to try to do this for our Land and Sea trip in January. I think we may do 2 sets for the 5 of us: one with fun bright colors for WDW (and the Poly!) and one for the Pirate party on DCL.

Question for all you creative folks out there ... what colors should I do for the pirate party??? I am going to order from Dharma. I am thinking smokey colors? The ones that caught my eye were Dusty Rose, Midnight Blue, Wedgewood Blue, Blue Gray, and Charcoal Gray. Anyone have any ideas for the Pirate party????

TIA

 

[mom of princess]

I only made one set of shirts for our trip and DH was not very optomistic about wearing them. Little did he know how much attention we got in the park. When I took DD to meet Ariel, a CM was walking in and asked where I got our shirts...I said I got the idea off DIS boards. She said that she would have to come on, she was a registered user too.
So DH said that for our next trip (soon I hope) he wants me to make shirts for every day -- it helped him to know where we were, he just had to look at what his shirt looked like and he could find us.
Thanks again to whoever started this!

 

[Who'syourMickey]

Our colors were from Dharma Trading company's small group tie dye kit. We did a not back to school party with our homeschool group then used the leftovers for our mickey shirts. We still have so much dye leftover, I don't know what to do with it. We had fushia red, yellow, and turquoise powders. We mixed colors to make red, purple, orange, yellow, red, green and limey green. So, a person could think about getting just the primary colors and mixing. You will have a lot of powder leftover if you buy all those colors but won't have to worry about color mixing. The color mixing was the funnest part of it for me. I heard that black is hard to work with with tie dye. So be aware of that for charcoal gray if that is the case. I can envision rose with light and dark blues and gray in a tie dye shirt that is pirate themed. I can't wait to see what your pirate shirts look like!

 

[Who'syourMickey]

One thought occured to me. Why even go to all the trouble of sewing the mickey heads? Call this my tip for busy busy people....simply consentric dye a blob of color in the middle, then trace out the mickey head in your color blob with bleach stick.

This way you could consentrate on making a really cool tie dye shirt, then just bleach stick a mickey head onto it. That would have saved me two hours of sewing mickey heads....someone might want to try it.

 

[sjlupin]

I heard that black is hard to work with with tie dye. So be aware of that for charcoal gray if that is the case. I can envision rose with light and dark blues and gray in a tie dye shirt that is pirate themed. I can't wait to see what your pirate shirts look like!

I thought the same thing. Maybe a dark blue for the mickey head, then other blues, gray and rose for the swirls?

Thanks for the feedback! It will be a while before I get all the materials and get 'er done, but I will post a pic when I do!

 

[Princess Stitch]

Me and DBF just dyed our shirts tonight for our trip! I'm curious to see how they turn out. I ended up with 50/50 shirts instead of 100% cotton. I didn't know when I bought them and they were on sale. I'll try and post pics tomorrow once we unbundle them.

 

[quiltymom]

Thank you for making this thread. I made the mickey heads green in honor of the disboards since recieving so many tips here for our daughter's wish trip.

I don't know if I should just leave well enough alone or to try to dye the ones with very little dye on their fronts more.

I guess I am not super happy with all of them...but not too sure how to fix botched spirals or if there is a way to recover from this.

Let me tell you something - I LOVE the way the backs turned out! Very cool. I was actually going to ask you how you got them to look like that!

The great thing about tie-dye is that no one "knows" what they were supposed to look like. It makes them fun that way.


I just dyed mine yesterday afternoon, so at 5:00 EDT I will be rinsing them out. Maybe tomorrow I'll have them posted on the boards. I used the Jacquard kits, and it's a good thing that I live within walking distance of AC Moore - I was back there to get more dye mid-process! There just isn't enough yellow dye to go around. I really drenched them since I wanted lots of color. I was only making 4 shirts and I used the large kit, "enough to make 14 shirts". Yeah - maybe infant onsies!

So now I have red and blue dyes - maybe I'll just may have to make Red, White & Blue ones for our trip, too!!