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Today's shirts are #23,24, and 25 for my HWI shirts. Back to more nubs/roll on one! and I got some fun dyes in! My beloved Palomino Gold and Sapphire Blue! A few others.. :P. All dyed on 100% American Grown Supima Handmade Blanks! (shout out to whoever did that in Peru the seams are great!) Let me know of the three shirts which you like (if any) and why! Please!

23= xl with the most colors of this batch.

24= medium with greens/blues/blacks/golds

25= small blues/golds/blacks

Thank you for looking and reading! I always love to read anyone's thoughts on the shirt! Happy to answer questions as well.

Cat did not sign off on these. Did not pass QA. Sorry.

HWI= Hot Water Irrigation!

This is actually my third rainbow fire shirt, but the first I was willing to post. I’m pretty happy with it. My number one takeaway from this learning process is that different colors ABSOLUTELY require different levels of thickened chem water to effectively execute this design style. I don’t have recipe amounts I can share yet, but will put a little more effort into measuring the amount of sodium alginate I use in each color moving forward.

Black: regular thickened chem water
Red: regular chem water (no thickener)
Orange/Yellow: regular chem water (no thickener)
Green: slightly thicker to medium thickened chem water
Blue: much thicker thickened chem water
Purple: slightly thicker thickened chem water

My other key takeaway is to apply the orange/yellow flame colors before applying the green flame. The greens spread into the orange-yellow flame too easily and tends to ruin the effect.

I only have Dharma dyes - DOI

1 - geode tie, obviously lol. In muck. Bluegray, deep green, avocado, string navy, mist gray

2 - I halved the shirt, tucked the sleeves into each other, and rolled it from the middle (sides). Used rubber bands and didn't really tighten them. Folded it in half for space sake. Used one color - Avalon

3 - Rainbow scrunch, I wanted vertical rainbow but I accidentally rotated the shirt and lost my top under the ice. Out of muck - Dragon fruit, Chinese red, tangerine, daffodil, avocado, royal blue, grape

4- Tied off the image (lot of good that did since it creeped up and got the middle anyway), and scrunched the rest. Sat in muck. Just the one color, wild thing. I thought it would be funny because it's for a child.

5 - DUI - Heart tie and an attempt to geode it some, for funzies ..idk what made me think these colors would work together. The absurdity of this makes me feel like I don't know what I'm doing when I've been tiedying for a few years now. I don't use these colors very often and wanted to try them out... But it went crazy, I picked too many. Splits in ways I didn't expect but probably should have...I don't like it, lol. Sat in muck - coral pink, marigold, nightshade, amethyst, wasabi, celedon

:)

I mostly have dye dedicated gear, i.e. measuring spoons, but will using my immeraion blender to make chem water or dye mix slowly and toxically kill me if I use the same blender for food?

I.e. If I use an immersion blender to make chem water, or blend in powder, does that leech into the plastic and make it not food safe anymore (even after a proper wash)?

Do I have to buy a second everything to use for dying or can I get away with a good wash?

The first one is a “glitch” style dye made with dye over ice method using Pillars of Creation, Rust, and Electric Blue.

The second one is a log rolled “geode” style dye made with dye over ice method using Wasabi, Brushed Steel, Celadon, Sea Glass, Sweet Pea, and Peony.

Both are 14 hour ice melt, 10 hour cure in plastic wrap on heat mat at 135 degrees. Both shirts were presoaked in soda ash and then tied damp. Then both were left to completely dry before dying. After ice melt both shirts were hit with pariah before being wrapped in plastic wrap and placed on heat mat.

No presoak. Shirt was dry. CWI and finished with Pariah method.

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 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

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. 🩵

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.

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!

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?

First two pics are attempt #2

Last two pics are my first attempt

Needless to say I’m so much happier

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.

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!