Yes, Fridays are my sew day. My day off to work on my own stuff -- sewing, quilting, fun stuff -- you know the creative fun zone!
This afternoon me, Nancy, and Mari worked on tie-dye shirts. The shirts are for the red, white, and blue party at the guild next month. What a blast we had!
We all tried a different folding technique. Mine is a bullseye pattern, Mari did a chevron, and Nancy did a spiral. I can not wait to see what they look like. Outside they go in an attempt to speed up the dry time.
Oh, I mentioned bullseye, chevron, and spiral folds. If you are interested in doing tie dye just head over to google (or your favorite search engine) -- there is a superabundance of info out there in internet land for so many different types of folds.
While the t-shirts were outside drying I couldn't help myself. There was still a bottle of yellow dye in the kit just screaming to be used so I grabbed an old tank and a cute curly stencil and...
Do you notice those dark stripes across the shirt? That was a mistake turned awesome! Don't you love when that happens? When I sprayed the dye over the stencil it left a dark line from the overspray as well as a bright white line from the stencil edge. So where the line-ups were I manually sprayed a dark line. To keep it looking planned I added several other dark lines. I think it turned out pretty cool!
Okay, fast forward several hours of drying... Yes, they are still damp - but we need to cut all the rubber bands and lay them out flat for additional drying before the heat setting.
Here is mine - the bulls eye:
Here is Nancy's - the spiral:
Here is Mari's - the chevron:
It was a super fun day and I think we all did some pretty amazing tie dying! If you get the chance you should definitely try it (if you haven't already)!
