The extra ten t-shirts weren’t going to hold up for long with the soda ash on them, and fortunately Beth opened up her tie-dye studio/kitchen for a marathon dying session. It takes longer than expected to fold and tie the shirts and mix and apply the dye. I got 10 shirts done in about 6 hours, though I had to keep the patterns basic in the interest of time (and fatigue). 9 of the shirts came out pretty well.
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The bottom three are my favorites. The yellow and periwinkle work pretty well together in the spiral, so my attempt at making orange by mixing red and yellow in situ didn’t quite work out.
I guess I’ll be wearing a lot of tie-dye this year.
So why the big interest in tie-dying? I like what you did, especially the spiral and the one next to it. Also liked the one in the previous entry with the dots. Cool dude.
What’s not to like about tie-dying? Creativity + Topology + Crafts = something cool you can wear. Plus, it’s required for the frisbee lifestyle.
For the bottom middle one, I poked it with a push pin to get the dye to distribute well, but I’m not sure if it’s worth having a shirt full of holes.