Tye dye 100% cotton shirts, socks, underwear, hankies, muslin material to make a beautiful tye-dyed world!!
NEEDED ITEMS
*Rubber Bands
*White shirts, socks,
hankies etc
*RIT Brand Dye TM
Vinegar
One 8 qt pan for each
color
A couple of big buckets
to rinse the dyed articles.
Very Hot Water
Rubber gloves
*** OLDER
KIDS AND ADULTS need to
supervise
the dipping and dying.
1) Take the rubber
bands and wrap them tightly around various parts of your shirt. (See
photo
to left)
2) You can make
different
designs by rolling the shirt in various places, or folding and
twisting,
then wrap the rubber bands around VERY tightly!
3) Place the RIT
dye into the large pots of very hot water as directed on the inside of
the RIT dye box, keep the pots on the stove on low. Be sure to add 1/2
cup to 1 cup salt in each 'dye bath' to help set the colors.
4) To make one color
shirt, place the entire shirt in the one color. Let it sit in
there
for at least 20 minutes, soaking up the dye.
5) To make multi
colored clothes, or material dip only part of the article in one
color.
Let it soak for 15-20 minutes, then wring out into the dye pan, using
rubber
gloves, because it will be HOT!
6) Place the items
in a bucket of vinegar and SOAK for about 15 mins to help set
the
colors.
- When you have
soaked
the article as long as you wish, wring it out entirely, using the
rubber
gloves, and rinse in the sink under cold water until the water runs
mostly
clear. You can fill buckets with cold water and let them soak in water.
7) Do a final rinse
and then wring as dry as you can, REMOVE rubber bands, and hang on
clothesline
to dry.
8) If you are dying
cotton material or muslin, you can let this dry and cut it into what
you
want to sew! Great stuff!
FIRST WASHING
CAUTION:
The first few times
you wash these dyed items, be sure to wash SEPARATELY because they will
run.
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