Something different

 Some time ago, and I have a feeling it was years now, I bought a little tie-dye kit. Well I bought two, one for me and one for my BFF. The original thought was we would give it a go together at some point.

But getting togethers that have the time and scope for doing something like this proved difficult. There was also the thought of what to dye. The kit came with a piece of material to make a bandana style scarf alongside the dye, gloves rubber bands, and an instruction booklet.

We thought perhaps T shirts white T shirts. All the stuff says cotton is best, the more cotton content the better the dye will take.

Ah but finding something nice enough that if it worked it would be worth it but cheap enough that if it went horribly wrong it would be no great loss.

I mentioned that we were having a get together, and we met in a city centre and there was a Primark, and 100% white cotton T shirts that were only £2.50 (in the men's department, the ladies were 50p more) and so three came home with me. Only one was destined to be  for this new craft experiment. The other two, some point in the I hope near future are for the dye pastels and the T-shirt dye pens.  It will make a change to use them for the function stated on the packaging and not for anything else.

Anyway back to the project, I have based the tie part on a you tube video rather than anything from the book. Although loosely based might be a better description.

First step soak in warm water, and let it dry a little. Then fold as per the video, which is harder then it looks.

Then pleat, also much harder than it looks. I could have taken more time to try and get the pleats even, I could but I didn't. Sometimes I just feel like doing and am more relaxed about how it might turn out.

Then tie it in place.

I did that with thread, it looked fine but I did not get it knotted enough and it did go a bit loose. I added the rubber bands. That may well have a detrimental impact on the intended result. Mind there are lots of things that will be doing that.

Then on with the generously sized gloves to add the colour.

I had red, yellow and blue to work with and this was the result.

I used all of the blue, there is a little of the other two left, not sure if I will used them later or not.

The book said to wrap in tin foil and leave it at least overnight to dry.

Will post the result later. When it is dry and I can as the chorus says  "free your colours"

My BFF also obtained a T-shirt, she may look at more tutorials than me, I have been after all this time a tad impatient to get something done.