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Tie Dye Linen Pillowcase

by Kim

There is a definite love for tie dye at my house. Tie dye in a jar is not as messy as some other techniques and it turns out looking fabu. This morning, I dyed a pillowcase from my office. It turned out nicely. Take a look.

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I want to stuff everything in a jar.

Take your Vitamin C!

Tie Dye Part 2

by Kim

Last week, I showed you my results from tie dying in a jar. It is incredibly easy and fabulous. The great results made me want to do t-shirts. So I did! Here is my 2 color shirt: aqua and green. I twisted this one from the side of the shirt. If you twist the long way from the neckline to the hem, you will get horizontal stripes.

This is my one color shirt. I just used black. And you can tell that I started twisting at the bottom right corner. It made a great and pretty traditional tie dye pattern.

You know you do not have to start with a white shirt. Any light color will work just as well as white. and give you an additional color in the shirt.

Since I did t-shirt shopping this week, I will tell you what I found. I did not shop kid's shirts, only adult. I found a nice shirt at Wal-Mart for $10. And then I found a way nicer, thicker fabric shirt at K-Mart for $8.

Take your Vitamin C and see what you come up with!

Tie Dye in a Jar

by Kim

Here we are at the New Smyrna Beach Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Art Retreat. Today while the sun was shining and gorgeous, we went out to do tie dye in a jar. I saw this technique on Burdastyle.com. You will want to try this, it was fun and the results were amazing. In practicing this at home before the retreat, I learned a few things that Burda did not tell me.

To tie dye a piece of fabric:

1. Get it wet and wring it out.

2. Twist it and wind it into a big glass jar. You will get a nice organic pattern if you twist the fabric as you put it into the jar instead of just pushing it in. As you wind it into the jar, layer the fabric with powder fabric dye. I tried it with RIT and with Tulip. RIT was cheaper, but Tulip has nicer color.

Keep layering fabric and dye. Add as few or as many colors as you wish. This technique works better if you can pack the jar pretty full. We used a brush handle to push the fabric deeper into the jar.

We were able to get a 2 yard piece of white cotton fabric into a canning jar.

3. When the fabric and dye are layered in the jar, pour boiling water to the top of the jar. Read the dye package to see if you need to treat the dye with anything. The dye we used needs salt to make it permanent. I added it to the boiling water before I poured it in the jar.

4. Put the lid on the jar and let it sit about 3 hours. You will know it is ready when you see that the fabric has absorbed all the liquid. It looks like we have been canning fabric.

5. Pull the fabric out of the jar and open it up to fabulousness. We rinsed the fabric, but really nothing much came off it.

They turned out beautifully. If you get the fabric out and it has too much white space for you, just twist it back into the jar and add more dye and water.