LissaW16
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- Mar 13, 2009
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Well, my 8 shirts are wrapped in saran wrap and "chilling" overnight. Pics tomorrow, fingers crossed!
This is what I did:
1) I sewed the mickey head, and rubber banded it with 3 or 4 rubber bands for each shirt.
2) I soaked the shirts in soda ash for about a half hour (found at Wally world in the pool chemicals aisle for $7, I used half of it - made 2 gallons).
3) I line-dried the shirts (I knew I wouldn't be able to dye them right away).
4) I "twisted" the dry shirts into the shape required for the spiral pattern, and rubber-banded them to each have 6 wedges.
5) Using the Tulip dye (the one that you just add water, comes in a dispenser bottle), I dyed the Mickey heads, wrapped them in saran wrap, and put another rubber band on (to hold on the saran wrap).
6) Next- I dyed the shirts. I am going for a red-white-blue Disney cruise line thing, so I only used red and blue dye. It took 5 bottles of each color to do 8 shirts! (1 child small, 2 adult large, 3 adult XL, 2 adult 2XL). I wore dishwashing gloves (the kind you can buy at the grocery store). I didn't have any trouble with drippage, the shirts really sucked up the dye. I also didn't try really hard to get between the folds, as I do want plenty of white on my shirts. I spent a lot of time trying to NOT make purple (blue and red blending together), so I might even have white lines where my rubberbands are. That's okay with me.
7) I wrapped each shirt bundle in saran wrap, and put them all in a grocery bag. They're sitting on top of my washing machine.
Tomorrow, I will rinse each one, then throw the whole batch in the washing machine. I am wondering if my Mickey heads are too small; when I looked at other people's pictures of the "during" process, I'm beginning to second-guess myself...
I guess we will see tomorrow!
This is what I did:
1) I sewed the mickey head, and rubber banded it with 3 or 4 rubber bands for each shirt.
2) I soaked the shirts in soda ash for about a half hour (found at Wally world in the pool chemicals aisle for $7, I used half of it - made 2 gallons).
3) I line-dried the shirts (I knew I wouldn't be able to dye them right away).
4) I "twisted" the dry shirts into the shape required for the spiral pattern, and rubber-banded them to each have 6 wedges.
5) Using the Tulip dye (the one that you just add water, comes in a dispenser bottle), I dyed the Mickey heads, wrapped them in saran wrap, and put another rubber band on (to hold on the saran wrap).
6) Next- I dyed the shirts. I am going for a red-white-blue Disney cruise line thing, so I only used red and blue dye. It took 5 bottles of each color to do 8 shirts! (1 child small, 2 adult large, 3 adult XL, 2 adult 2XL). I wore dishwashing gloves (the kind you can buy at the grocery store). I didn't have any trouble with drippage, the shirts really sucked up the dye. I also didn't try really hard to get between the folds, as I do want plenty of white on my shirts. I spent a lot of time trying to NOT make purple (blue and red blending together), so I might even have white lines where my rubberbands are. That's okay with me.
7) I wrapped each shirt bundle in saran wrap, and put them all in a grocery bag. They're sitting on top of my washing machine.
Tomorrow, I will rinse each one, then throw the whole batch in the washing machine. I am wondering if my Mickey heads are too small; when I looked at other people's pictures of the "during" process, I'm beginning to second-guess myself...
I guess we will see tomorrow!
