Materials
-Clothing to dye (light colors will work best, white, yellow, light pink.. etc) - clothes may shrink, buy big!-Spray dye - I found them at Hobby Lobby for $2.99 per color
-Lace or doilies
-Soda Ash... also found at Hobby Lobby in the fabric dye aisle. $5.99 for two 1 gal batches.
->1gal bucket with lid.
-Clothes pins
- Prepare your fabric first! Wash your clothes normally.
- Wearing gloves, mix soda ash with water in the bucket. The soda ash usually has directions, but the measurements should be 1/2 cup soda ash : 1 gallon of water.
- Soak fabric in soda ash for 20 minutes.
- Allow the fabric to dry on a flat surface before spray dyeing.
- After the shirt has dried, or almost dried, lay lace or doily on clothes. Secure with clothes pin
- Spray the shirt with the dye per directions on the dye.
- Once the shirt is colored to your liking, dry flat.
- When dry, heat set in the dryer on high setting for at least 20 minutes
This has definitely been one of my favorite projects. The many different ways to customize these are perfect. You can easily cut out words or other pictures even to spray around and create so many shirts! What's better than custom shirts?
