Tie Dye question

[Mrs Potato Head]

Where would a person who has never done tie dye before get easy directions to do this? I know I saw something a while back about tie dye mickey heads...but I want to tie dye a very tiny little t-shirt (for my pal mickey) so that he can wear it to the Davy Jones concert in May. I have never done tie dye before at all - not even as a child, so I don't know the first thing about this!

HELP!!! Please????

Thanks in advance for any direction you folks can offer....

 

[java]

look here ..great directions with pictures!!!
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1210609

 

[Plantlady]

When you buy the dye, it will come with directions.

The kind with the squirt bottles would probably work best for a tiny shirt, so you could do different colors, and such. Very simple to do.

 

[ReAnSt]

For your tie dye for Pal Mickey you will most likely not want to do the spiral method, since his shirt is so small. So instead of twisting the shirt in a spiral direction after the Mickey head is stitched, gathered and knotted, place the rubber band on top of those strings and then just gather the rest of the fabric and place rubber bands at random places. Follow the rest of the tie dye directions.

Or a simpler idea that you could use to make the Mickey design is using the flour and water paste and spray on colored paint. These are someone else's directions and family.

I think this was from the Family Fun magazine.

Supplies:
Squirt bottle (I used an almost empty glue bottle and just cleaned it out)
Flour
Water
Spray fabric paint

Mix the flour and water until it is the consistency of mustard and pour into bottle. Squeeze onto the shirt in whatever pattern you desire. Lay the shirt in the sun to dry. After the mixture has hardened completely spray with fabric paint then lay the shirt in the sun for paint to dry. When the paint has completely dried slowly peel away the flour/water mixture to reveal the pattern below.

I did this on a hot day at the end of September and by the evening we had all 7 shirts ready to go. I even added spray glitter for fabric after we peeled the flour mixture off. We got lots of comments from CMs and guests alike. The CM on the boat to and from Tom Sawyer Island loved them...he said, "OOOOHHHH I love those!!! I read about them in Family Fun and have been dying to make one!!!" I hope he did because they're so easy and fun and you just can't mess them up!

The magazine had a sunburst pattern I believe. We just wanted to make it more Disney-ish and decided to use Mickey's head. I just swirled the mixture around and around with some being straight and others being at angles. Little did I realize that DisneyQuest has that same pattern on the "Q" and the folders that you get your Photopass pictures in also have Mickey's head in that same swirl pattern. Pretty neat!!!

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[Mrs Potato Head]

Thank you all! Since it is a LITTLE shirt, I will try all of the above and see what works best. I'll be sure to post results in a few days.

You guys are terrific. I can't believe I'm going to attempt this on such a small surface...I must be completely gone.

 

[Mrs Potato Head]

Ok folks...these are in process right now...color is on, and I have them wrapped in plastic for the "setting" time. The box says 24 hours, other directions say 4-6 hours...

Question #1 - when the time is up, I'm readin that I rinse these with water. Will they still be wet with the dye, and if so - will that dye my sink? Should I find another place to do this? (don't know where, but I guess I'd figure that out if so)

Question #2 - it then says to run them through the washer with a little soap. Cold water, I assume?

I did actually spiral one small shirt with a mickey head (hopefully), but the other I wrapped in bands and will try to use the Mickey head design with a bleach pen later. Just to see what would happen.

TIA! Again....

 

[bytheblood]

For your tie dye for Pal Mickey you will most likely not want to do the spiral method, since his shirt is so small. So instead of twisting the shirt in a spiral direction after the Mickey head is stitched, gathered and knotted, place the rubber band on top of those strings and then just gather the rest of the fabric and place rubber bands at random places. Follow the rest of the tie dye directions.

Or a simpler idea that you could use to make the Mickey design is using the flour and water paste and spray on colored paint. These are someone else's directions and family.

I think this was from the Family Fun magazine.

Supplies:
Squirt bottle (I used an almost empty glue bottle and just cleaned it out)
Flour
Water
Spray fabric paint

Mix the flour and water until it is the consistency of mustard and pour into bottle. Squeeze onto the shirt in whatever pattern you desire. Lay the shirt in the sun to dry. After the mixture has hardened completely spray with fabric paint then lay the shirt in the sun for paint to dry. When the paint has completely dried slowly peel away the flour/water mixture to reveal the pattern below.

I did this on a hot day at the end of September and by the evening we had all 7 shirts ready to go. I even added spray glitter for fabric after we peeled the flour mixture off. We got lots of comments from CMs and guests alike. The CM on the boat to and from Tom Sawyer Island loved them...he said, "OOOOHHHH I love those!!! I read about them in Family Fun and have been dying to make one!!!" I hope he did because they're so easy and fun and you just can't mess them up!

The magazine had a sunburst pattern I believe. We just wanted to make it more Disney-ish and decided to use Mickey's head. I just swirled the mixture around and around with some being straight and others being at angles. Little did I realize that DisneyQuest has that same pattern on the "Q" and the folders that you get your Photopass pictures in also have Mickey's head in that same swirl pattern. Pretty neat!!!

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I tried to make these and they did not come out, at all. I did an apron and it was really cute, but the paint came out on the first wash.


I was brave and tried the tie-dye. My first try was not terrible.