Amazing Dyes...

[mustdye]

I don't know if y'all poke around on the internet looking for inspiration or a new design or direction but I like to do it on occasion...

I've had people compliment my tie dye and people I have never met have purchased my stuff but I see some of these other dyers out there and I'm blown away.

It makes me wonder how they do it...maybe I'll try dry dyeing or maybe thickener...maybe I need to apply my dye with pipettes instead of the really cool squirt bottles that I got at American Science & Surplus.

Here's my stuff if you want to see I do... http://mustdye.ecrater.com/ perhaps I'll inspire you and put thoughts in your head that weren't there before...

[Jaja]

You have your own style!  I think you don't mind experimenting, that's what I like.

I wonder what kind of fold is this one: http://mustdye.ecrater.com/30821/46e30af8da5d4_30821n.jpg
(if it's not a secret)

[mustdye]

Sometimes I'll print out a pic of a dye online to see if I can reverse engineer it...

So we have this shirt


         ^^^^
my foot

I know that it was folded in half lengthwise and bound with an accordion fold along this line (give or take)



Then the whole shirt is bound at about one inch intervals.

If I had to guess I would say that with the shirt lying in front of me I dyed one section yellow and then the next one red and so on...
Turning the shirt over I start with red and then the yellow so that the section is red on one side and the same section is yellow on the other.
Red will overtake the yellow as you can see so it might be better to go heavier on the yellow.

It might be better to make your first bind more centrally located than what I have shown so that the shirt ends with a more even look to it.

Tie Dyeing is wonderful...
I'm glad that I have a workspace in my home and my own washer/dryer.
It does have spiders and an occasional centipede but we all have a good time.
Last year I had to catch and release a couple of Bumblebees from the basement land.
I don't know what they were doing down there...

Let Your Freak Flag Fly !!!

[Jaja]

Thanks for nice pics with own toe and smiley!
OK, I did this system couple of times but I never get it so regularly spaced.
Maybe I should care less for the result during the process and it comes out better - I always get better result when I'm not thinking that it might turned out wrong way.

[mustdye]

I always get better results when I'm not thinking that it might turn out the wrong way.

Not sure if you drink ale or not but I find that a couple of good craft beers and The Grateful Dead help me get out of it so I can get into it...
No more than a couple...no need to get drunk...
I find that there is no wrong way, just some ways look better.

On this piece I knew what the center would look like but until it was laid out to be dyed I hadn't decided what colors to use and even then I made it up as I went along.

[deb]

I am completely  at the last one in particular. I have a hard enough time getting consistent hearts, let alone anything that complex!!!!!

I agree with the craft beers, though.