My sister and I tie-dyed t-shirts last week (it was for a parade and we wanted all the kids to match). We had never tie-dyed anything before, we were kinda nervous about it. I think we watched over 4 videos before we actually attempted it.
Once you start, you just can't stop... it's super fun and EASY (no need to be nervous about it)!
We bought a tie-dye kit (Tulip - One Step Tie-Dye Kit) and followed the instructions. What's nice about the kit was that the powder was already in the bottles, you just had to add water and shake.
We laid the shirts flat on the table and selected a section of the t-shirts and pulled up and added rubber bands 2 inches apart. You should totally check out YouTube for examples. We really enjoyed the tutorial from I Love To Create.
We headed outside and placed our t-shirt tubes on a garbage bag (next time we will place the garbage bags on a flat surface and not on the ground). We put on some rubber gloves and started dying the t-shirts.
After we were done dying the t-shirts, we wrapped them up in plastic wrap.
We let them sit for 8 hours and then we removed the rubber bands with scissors. Once the rubber bands were removed, we rinsed the t-shirts (wear gloves!!).. to remove the extra dye. I would recommend you rinse the t-shirts in the sink and not in a bin... you'll be surprised at the amount of dye that will come out during rinsing.
We then set the washing machine to HOT and put it at the biggest load.
And voilà the result:
Here are my girls sporting their new tie-dye t-shirts along with their cousin Charles.
What do you think?? I just LOVE them!!
I'm planning on picking up some white tank tops to tie-dye too :)
Have a GREAT day!!
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38 comments:
Such a fun project! I do like them a lot!
Your girls are so cute! I love tie dye it is so fun and much easier than I thought it would be
The colors you chose are beautiful, and so are the shirts! I think I might have done some once at a summer camp, but they didn't turn out so well!
These turned out just perfect!! Makes me want to make some now!!
so so cute! I want to make some! :)
OH your girls are SO adorable with those ultra cool shirts! We had a party and did these but the kids went a little nutty and put too much dye thus getting blackish brown shirts! LOL
I love to tie dye! My son literally has 10+ tie dyed shirts in his drawer, haha! :) Yours turned out great!
Those tie-dye t-shirts are gorgeous!
I love tye dye! Yours turned out Awesome :)
Amazing tie dye! Wonderful As always Christine!
Nice job! I want to try this.:)
They turned out sooo cute!!!
These really turned out cute- I'm saving this to try with the kids soon! I was just saying the other day to my husband that I wanted to try this w/my kids before the summer was over. So excited!
Your shirts turned out so pretty! I imagine the children really enjoyed wearing them!
I have never tie-dyed anything. The kiddos look so cute in their matching shirts.
Those shirts are so cute! I love the colors that you used and I love that all the kids have matching ones - adorable! :)
I've been wanting to tie-dye with my girls. I love the onesie! It makes it so much more fun to wear knowing that they helped to make it.
Looks like so much fun! The onesie is especially adorable. Thanks for sharing at Etcetorize this week!
so cute, I'm going to have to try this. I'm old enough to remember tie-dye from my younger days.
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Wow, those look so cool! Love how the patterns turned out.
Those look really great! I just love your last photo.
They are so cute! Those colors look so great together :) Thanks so much for linking this up to our weekend Wonders party. Hope to see you back on Thursday :)
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So cute! I love tie dye stuff, these are great instructions too!
They look great! My daugher loves to tie dye. Thank you so much for linking this great project up to the Pinworthy Projects Party over at Just Us Four!
cute!
How cute! I haven't made tie-dyed shirts since I was in girl scouts many moons ago. My kids are going to love this project. Your's came out great. Thanks for sharing :)
Michelle
I remember making tie-dyed shirts when I was a kid. It was so much fun. I absolutely love these shirts. Thanks for sharing on Marvelous Mondays! Please note, my new web address is www.thisgalcooks.com Same blog, different name. :)
Julie
I have never made anything tie-dye but it does look like fun! I should try it with my grandkids! Thank you for sharing!
Looks like alot of great fun!!
What a fun project. this made me think of one of my favorite shirt when I was young, yeah, it was tie-dyed! we will be featuring this at the blog tomorrow, by the way.
thanks for sharing this with us at the Crafty Saturday Party, Christine. I can't wait to see what you have for us this week.
Hugs,
Lelanie@to-sew-with-love.com
We haven't tie-dyed in a few years, but seeing your great results makes me want to try again.
We'd love for you to link up to our Finished Friday blog party.
They are adorable. I've been meaning to make these with my kids, but just haven't gotten to it yet. You inspired me to NOT put it off...
Thanks!
I've never tie died before. But my daughter went to a birthday party where they did that. She had tons of fun. I love the colors you did.
Thanks for sharing at Terrific Tuesdays.
Rachel
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Thanks for linking up to last week's Tuesday Confessional link party! Your post has been featured so head on over and grab a brag button!
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~Macy
I love this project so much that I'll be featuring it at tonight's Make it Great party. I hope you'll stop by to grab a featured button from the sidebar and link up again!
Very fun craft!
I should do that with my girls!
I remember doing that was I was a teen and we had a ball!
Thanks for linking up this weeek!
Stacey of Embracing Change
I'm going to have to try this again. Yours turned out so great. I love them! Thanks for linking up at Doodles & Stitches!
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