Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Tie Dye Bandannas

Alrighty guys, so it's been a long long time since I've posted anything. I've started working really hard with some other stuff and haven't had time to sit around and do crafts, but this past weekend a friend and I made some super awesome bandannas, from one of my grandma's old t-shirts, too! The pictures are awful, please forgive me. Completely forgot about you guys when making these. This is superrr easy and you can make it with pretty much any old white clothing scraps, or any clothing scraps for that matter. So let's get started, here's what you shall need..
-Big huge pot

-Water
-Salt
-Vinegar..I used white vinegar..it has to be clear
-old shirt/clothing scraps
-food coloring/some sort of dye
-rubber bands
-gloves, unless you wanna do like what I did and have green hands for the whole weekend. I'm serious. It stayed for a while.
-Hair dryer
-Piece of cardboard, very big piece of cardboard
Now for the instructions..
1) Fill a big pot up, half with water and half with vinegar
2) Put whatever clothing scraps you want to dye in the mixture, and it you needed to cut it or anything like that make sure you do this BEFORE putting it in the big pot.
3) Let the clothing scraps sit in the mixture for 30 minutes, and while it's sitting take bowls and pour water into them, and add the food coloring. Add a lot of food coloring..you want the dye to be pretty dark because it will show up lighter and also fade A LOT.
4) After the cloth has set in the pot/mixture thing for 30 minutes, take them out and squeeze out as much liquid as you can from them.
5) If you are working with white cloth, dunk the whole piece of cloth in the lightest color dye you have. For us that was yellow. Squeeze out any excess dye. 
6) Take the cloth and tie rubber bands on small pieces in random places like you would any other tie-dye. 
7) Dip the parts you have tied off in the dyes. Some ties in one color, other ties in the next, you get the idea.
8) Put the cloth scraps on the big piece of cardboard and let them air dry somewhere preferably warm for a little bit. Like next to a heating vent or outside in the sun. 
9) After they get not-soaking-wet, use a hair dryer to dry them. The wetter they are when you start blow-drying, the better the dye stays. This is going to take you a long time, but it's worth it. 
10) After that take the rubber bands out and awe at your beautiful design. Then dry the parts that were on the inside of the rubber bands with the hair dryer and voila. You are finished, dear.
Here's a picture of what the chunk of cloth looked like when I finished up ^^

Good luck, dears! 

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