So over the past month i have been seaching Pinterest and You Tube for dyeing ideas and tutorials. I didn't want to just do the traditonal spirals and stripes-- i still have shirts like that from the last time i dyed-- i wanted to do something different. I kept seeing these wonderful watercolor looking dyed fabrics.... Ice Dyeing! I love it! Thought I would try it! And i saw Drip Dyeing, and tried that also. Learned a lot about dyeing this time.

Here we see a few of the items i actually tied/ or used rubberbands to "tie".

This is not a tutorial for dying, there are numerous tutorials out there on blogs and You Tube. I will just say that Thursday morning i washed the new clothes, then soaked them in soda ash, as the instructions said, before i tied them or set them up for ice dying. i put them aside for 24 hours and rinsed them Friday morning, then threw them in the washer and dryer.
Here we see many of the garments already rinsed out. Some of the socks and underwear i used as "rags" to mop up the excess dye, or dye powder, so i didn't get blotches in the wrong places. I could have used paper towel, but where is the fun in that???? The ones that look like paint rags, well... they basically were!

And here is the finished product!-- well not all of them...



This is me modeling my finished, tie dyed shirt!

That's the traditional tie dye. I think i will start a new entry about ice dyeing!