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!

A year ago, when I started The Groovy Tie Dye Project (my nonprofit art project that supports animal rescues) my first client was a vet tech, Heather. I have 9 community cats and unfortunately our favorite little guy started to have some nasty, painful looking skin issues that my home/feed and seed store remedies couldn't fix... I contacted Heather and she immediately called me and told me to bring him and my tie dyes in and we would discuss a barter. Diego received love, pets, a 5 star vet experience and 3 shots. The cost? 2 tie dye tshirts and a hug! I couldn't be happier! Yesterday I got to use my art to make the world a better place and help a friend in need. 🩵

First dyes in a little while. I had injured my hand and was avoiding string work till the cut was healed. I was trying to play with having a little more of the white play in the shirt also using colors that can make brown mixes. My goal was to avoid making mixed shades of brown. Hope yall like what i made. Thanks for looking

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!

I have used Rit All-Purpose dye to good effect on denim jackets (specifically the X-Ray Indigo Denim Jacket, which is 2 percent Spandex). Because I use blue jackets that are already colored, I get a nice gradient out of it (currently a green one using green dye and a purple one using wine-colored dye).

However, looking to get into fiber reactive dye since it's supposed to be better and more permanent. Considering trying to use Turquoise Dye (maybe from Dharma?) on an X-Ray Indigo Denim Jacket.

But any advice for this sort of thing? Down the road, I could see myself trying to manage some of the cool tiedye designs folks have, except on a denim jacket.

Advice on blogs or YouTube channels that focus on dyeing denim would also be great. Thank you!

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?