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[momminnie]

I have got some red shirts I am going to try just doing black Mickey ears on them. What do you think they will turn out like?

 

[silverwolfe2003]

Ok...we've done a few shirts...they aren't perfect but they aren't bad...lol...I have no idea how to show pics on here or I would show them The Mickey head showed up well on the kid tshirts but not quite as well on the adult shirts...I wrapped the thread around and around after I gathered the Mickey head and put 2 really thick rubber bands on as tight as I could get them. I will try adding more rubber bands next time...how thick of an area should they cover after all of the rubber bands are on? Maybe an inch of fabric? Or more? Like this [ ] or like this [ ] ?

 

[amitrat]

You need to upload your photos to a place like photobucket. Then copy and paste the image code. On photobucket, you just put your mouse on the picture, the 4 code choices pop up, and you left click the image one to copy it. Then you paste it in here - ctrl + V to paste. you can click preview to make sure it posted.

I also did not get the white definition, but I used a bleach pen and traced my pattern to correct - left the bleach on about 5 minutes and rinsed off - I did not want it WHITE white. I know I used too much dye on the mickey head - I will hold it upside down next time and add dye slowly until it reaches the rubber bands. Here is a picture of one of my shirts.

 

[momminnie]

Have fun on your trip and post pics of your family in their shirts.

 

[amitrat]

thanks - lets just hope that Newark airport doesn't shut down before we leave from Jersey tomorrow fingers crossed!

 

[inkedupmomma]

Thanks so much for this thread! Made shirts this weekend and we love how they came out! I did have an issue with the colors bleeding past the rubberbands, but I'm still pleased with our results!

 

[PixieDust32]

Awesome!!! You guys did great!! thanks for sharing!

 

[silverwolfe2003]

Thanks so much for telling me how to post pics! I will post them this weekend I haven't gotten my hands on a fabric pen...and the bleach pen didn't work (maybe it was old?)...so we got some white fabric paint and painted our Mickey head outlines on...lol...they actually are kind of cute, I think! I will take some pics and post them...I think we are going wrong by just not putting on enough rubber bands and are not JUST adding the dye until it spreads up to the rubber bands. Some of the shirts we are working with (namely, MINE...lol) are quite Pooh sized so I am trying to get as much color saturation as I can because usually I have tons of white..I think I have gotten the hang of spreading the folds to add the dye!

Any hints or tips on doing the black a little less messily? It seems to spread like crazy! Pixie has very nice, neat black lines on her shirt...Mine look like smudges!

You need to upload your photos to a place like photobucket. Then copy and paste the image code. On photobucket, you just put your mouse on the picture, the 4 code choices pop up, and you left click the image one to copy it. Then you paste it in here - ctrl + V to paste. you can click preview to make sure it posted.

I also did not get the white definition, but I used a bleach pen and traced my pattern to correct - left the bleach on about 5 minutes and rinsed off - I did not want it WHITE white. I know I used too much dye on the mickey head - I will hold it upside down next time and add dye slowly until it reaches the rubber bands. Here is a picture of one of my shirts.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

Hi, sorry for not posting lately we're getting ready to go to the beach and been really busy!

So, here a pic of these Halloween T's I made last year for these girls

WOW. If I worked for Disney merch, I would be negotiating a price to the rights for these! The faces are TOOO cute!

 

[PirateFish989]

So after lurking around this thread for months and getting ideas, I decided to actually tie dye shirts for our upcoming Girls Trip to Disneyland. I've tie dyed plenty of times before and I have all the chemicals and dyes and I have the technique down pat (I prefer to use string instead of rubber bands), but I was terrified to try this. I've never tie dyed anything where you stitch and bast before, but I thought what the heck? Tie Dye isn't supposed to be perfect right?

Well, I think I did pretty well!

The fronts:

The backs:

Up close front:

Up close back:

Up close Mickey head:

Thanks to everyone who has posted pictures and given directions and suggestions!

 

[MommyBell08]

So after lurking around this thread for months and getting ideas, I decided to actually tie dye shirts for our upcoming Girls Trip to Disneyland. I've tie dyed plenty of times before and I have all the chemicals and dyes and I have the technique down pat (I prefer to use string instead of rubber bands), but I was terrified to try this. I've never tie dyed anything where you stitch and bast before, but I thought what the heck? Tie Dye isn't supposed to be perfect right?

Well, I think I did pretty well!

The fronts:

The backs:

Up close front:

Up close back:

Up close Mickey head:

Thanks to everyone who has posted pictures and given directions and suggestions!

Those look beautiful!

 

[KarlaG4Kids]

So after lurking around this thread for months and getting ideas, I decided to actually tie dye shirts for our upcoming Girls Trip to Disneyland. I've tie dyed plenty of times before and I have all the chemicals and dyes and I have the technique down pat (I prefer to use string instead of rubber bands), but I was terrified to try this. I've never tie dyed anything where you stitch and bast before, but I thought what the heck? Tie Dye isn't supposed to be perfect right?

Well, I think I did pretty well!

The fronts:

The backs:

Up close front:

Up close back:

Up close Mickey head:

Thanks to everyone who has posted pictures and given directions and suggestions!

Those are WONDERFUL. Will you make me one!!! I love the different colors.

 

[silverwolfe2003]

Ok...we tried some tie dye Mickey heads...I am going to show several pics....the first ones we did turned out OK but I didn't get much definition to my Mickey heads...we did the whole basting, banding..soaking in ash water...making the spiral...and dying. I couldn't get the bleach pen to work so we got some fabric paint and painted our Mickey heads...lol. This is one of those...now keep in mind, we are dyeing way XL shirts..mine is a 5x...so this one is a big shirt. I am finding it difficult to get a clean spiral look with the bigger shirts...anyone know a secret to that? I am pleased with the amount of color I am getting...I think I actually want a bit more white for some contrast! That used to be a problem, getting too much white but I learned how to open the folds and really get the dye down into the fabric. Oh, we used Dharma dyes as well...wow, the color you get with those is fantastic!

Sam

 

[silverwolfe2003]

Wow, sorry the pic is so big...I didn't want to use a lot of black because I saw where people were talking about how the black runs wild...but I wanted more black than I ended up with on this one. It's not perfect...but not bad for a first try!

 

[silverwolfe2003]

We painted these too..these are our kiddo's shirts

 

[silverwolfe2003]

The first shirt was my partner's...we had to paint hers...the bleach pen of course didn't show up on the black or it is a dud, one...lol...the second shirt was our son's shirt...that one turned out pretty cute!

 

[silverwolfe2003]

This was my shirt...not perfect but pretty proud of it! This too, is from the first batch...we got defined heads on a couple of them but not many.

 

[silverwolfe2003]

First batch...this is my shirt..the other orange one was my partner's shirt...

 

[silverwolfe2003]

Ok, these are the ones we did last night...we spent several hours working on these! Each shirt took me at least 30 minutes to dye...I was trying to be really careful and not rush through them. Same method as before but more rubber bands and tighter! If you think you have enough rubber bands and they are far enough down, add another one

 

[silverwolfe2003]

These were supposed to be camo Mickey Heads...the top shirt is the one I did...my parnter has a little harder time with the whole process...you can see what happened to our kiddo's shirt in the last pic...lol...I guess the back of the tshirt got puckered in with the basted Mickey head...we can fix that one