dharma avalon and snow maiden, doi. on an “oatmeal” colored cotton shower curtain from quince.

decided to treat myself to a shirt for me. been trying to refine this particular spine style (previous post showed process) so went with that. Got it in a place now that it is predictable and repeatable. couldn’t be happier with the result. really dialing in what works and what doesn’t on both the front blackouts and backs. definitely a favorite!

I'm interested to know what everyone sees in it. TIA!

New to the community:

I love the creativity and freedom the tie dye seems to offer.

My first few are likely going to be liquid dye projects. I've got several blanks that I'm going to begin tying soon, so I started jotting down ideas and how I plan to tie each. On my list was a DNA pattern. This got me thinking of a DNA pattern with narrow, alternating triangles, instead of parallel pleats.

Is this an established pattern? Just curious what I need to search for to understand the folding and tying, or if I'm on my own to experiment.

I was going for geodes, but I think I over-saturated. The sinew was super tight, but I'm pretty sure I went overboard with both ice and dye. I do like how it came out though!

First two pics are attempt #2

Last two pics are my first attempt

Needless to say I’m so much happier

Hi all,

I don't have a good working space where I can fold and tie my shirts after soda ash soak, so I tie them first and then soak. I prefer to dry them before dyeing because the dye gets in better (im doing ice and irrigation). Do any of you have recommendations on how to dry these folded+soaked blanks quickly? I know this is a scenario where SA application after dye (pariah) might work better but I'm just getting started and hoping to get a few designs made before I try too many new methods. So far my shirts are getting down to damp and then they stay damp for days. Am I worrying too much about getting them dry?

Never (maybe) again, XL 10oz cotton independent trading company hoodie, was supposed to be a v neck but was just too thick. Cotton was also too thick to get all the wax out, but it was a free experiment for someone's first tie dye... so ill take it as a win.

First time actually tying legit knots on this one and very happy with how it turned out.

Soaked in soda ash for 20 min then folded\twisted.

I used 30 pound test fishing line for my string on this one to get tight knots.

My friend asked me to attempt this! I tried to liquid dye a stealie. Probably should have used black instead of browns for the outline etc. MANY other things wrong that I did lol. It did not go well I was winging it :D! A fail by my standards all day but hey we learned some things along the way!

I could go back over the skull with pigma ink and heat treat it on but we will leave this as is. My friend likes it anyway lol Thanks for looking and reading.

Edit: Blank: 2XL Supima Cotton
Dyes: Electric Green, Olive Green, Shiitake Brown.......

Been getting some requests recently for Dickies medical scrubs (local nursing groups) and really pleased with how they take dye. Wasn't expecting much with the 45% polyester, but they're coming out quite nicely. Not pleasant to work with, they don't want to hold the fold, but otherwise decent.

Big hit with this community!! 🎉

This keeps happening lately. Think I’m gonna toss my homemade SA and buy it. This was a DUI 24 hour muck dye
DS Wildgarden, dharma shitake, and DS rainforest…

I was going to try and make a zebra costume with a white sweatsuit. My plan was soak in soda ash, roll the sweatsuit around a pvc pipe, scrunch it up and squirt with black dye. Is there anything else I should do to make it more zebra-like? Any other suggestions?

I can see I need to tighten my resists, but I’m pleased how the colors came out!

I have been trying HWI but the dye isn’t penetrating good. After unwrapping this one I realized I had only a couple patches of color, so I got crazy with throwing dye on it, dunked in mud, more dye, a little bleach. Came out pretty chaotic and psychedelic. Other shirts here were also unsatisfying in terms of color saturation.

Either bc shirts were damp when I started misting, not enough dye, or idk. But the colors didn’t penetrate or spread good as I’d like and I’m sad.

I will continue my endeavors and won’t quit. I’d like to become HWI proficient just bc I don’t know how I would set up ice dyes in the cold season.

I will try dying dry shirt next time.

I gave tie dying a shot for the first time in my life this week, and this geode came out better than anything else. Extremely happy with it, as is my wife, since she can’t seem to take it off.

Purple stained glass, pillars of creation, dharma terracotta, and a dusting of blue violet all over. In the muck, no wire.

Unfortunately it got a hole in it from doing the spiral. I couldn't sell it, so it found a home in my music classroom!