Who doesn’t love some bright tie dye? I made some easy outfits for Boo over the weekend using dyeable clothing from Dharma Trading and a few bright dye colors. I made one outfit with a peace sign and one outfit with a heart. You can find my peace sign tutorial here and below I show how to dye the heart shape.
I love the cure curled edges on the top and pants. The top is the french terry ruffle top and the pants are the french terry ruffle pants:
First I laid out a sheet of plastic with my clothing ready to dye:
I soaked them in a bucket of water with some soda ash added. Then wrung the clothing out well.
To make a heart shape, I folded my shirt in half and drew half a heart shape as shown below with a disappearing ink pen:
Then, with my gloves on, I started gathering the fabric along the line I drew:
Once all the fabric was gathered along the heart line…..
…..I added a rubber band at the line:
Then I added rubber bands to the rest of the shirt:
Here’s my clothing all bunched up with rubber bands placed every few inches:
I added purple along the “heart” line making sure to soak it through. I added it to the peace sign lines too just like in the peace sign tutorial.
I just tried to repeat the pattern of dye across all the clothing. Look I still have hair!
Here’s how the clothing looks with pink and purple dye added:
I carefully wrapped up the plastic cloth around the clothing and left it to sit overnight:
In the morning I cut off all my rubber bands and rinsed the clothing with cold water.You can read my entire tutorial on dyeing with Procion Dye here. But here’s how my heart turned out:
And the peace sign!
Two cute tie dyed outfits made in about under an hour:
Comments
My girls would love this!
I was just starting to think about some heart tie-dye for valentines day. Rit has this heart shapped project on their site: http://www.ritdye.com/content/tie-dye-heart-pincushions but yours looks SO much easier! Thanks as always for being aweomse.
Gorgeous! And made with love, the best kind of clothing.
The peace sign tutorial last year was one of my favorites you have done. The heart is perfect in time for valentines day! Thanks Ashley!
Beautiful…this will inspire Lillie to make it through 4 days of school this week;0) I am guessing a circle (for my man child) would be done the same way? Thanks Ashley! This is beautiful;0)
My kids always love tie dying days! At least once a summer we spend an entire day outside transforming every solid color item we can find into a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing this technique!
If only my daughter needed more clothes.
Very cool! I love the colours! I seriously have to save up for the huge order I will place one day with dharma trading….
Very Pretty!!
I see this tutorial and I am right back in my yard, circa “1968″ tie dyeing T-shirts for everybody! LOL
Really beautiful ! Such gorgeous colors. Dharma order going in !
I love the finished product but I swear it looks like there are faces in those tie die areas! You couldn’t have done that if you tried! And I am so glad you still have hair! Makes all the difference, doesn’t it!!
Girl, you are so talented!
Kinda Random but do you know about thermofax machines for making a screenprint?? Cool ? Not cool? Do they work? Worth ordering a print from someone if you feel totally intimidated by the whole thing?? You are my crafting guru by the way!
Love this but want to do it this week while my granddaughter is visiting…can I get the soda ash at HL or at Michaels, or anywhere else? Adorable!
Ohh!!!! I LOVE this!! My girls are always asking me to do ‘cool’ shapes for them! Thank you so much!
Can’t wait to go and try this fun craft!
Cheers!
Vanessa
Very nice pictorial of the process.
Love the colors!
oh so cute!!
I did it and it worked….SO EXCITED…shirts are in the washer now…going to try to add a square skirt to them and whatever…will send you a picture prob to FB (because I know how to do that). Ok…hope you r having a good day!
Love,
Beth
Update …my small sizes did great…my larger size…not so much. So, since I figure things outnin my sleep, I saw myself running a basting stitch with embrodery floss along the shape line…do you think that would hold the shape better?
They really turned out cute…pink shirt with red dye hearts!
Hope you got back to sleep after the broccoli last night and have had a good day.
Love ya,
Beth