Tie Dye Experimentation

Today I am trying out two methods for the Tie Dye.

I am planning to use the colours simply- straight from the can but rather than using only orange I would like to incorporate yellow, and red into the t-shirts to make them bolder in colour. I have bought A LOT of Dye! This is so the colours produced are really vibrant. I don't want any 'wishy washy' colours in my group!

I am using Dylon dye as the t-shirts are going to be cotton so this is the best dye for this. Golden Glow (yellow) Tangerine (orange) Cherry Flame (red)

 I may change the red dye to the scarlet depending on today's results.

Originally I was going to get the children to dye the t-shirts themselves but time and money has meant that I was going to use Cold water dyes, I am now using Dylon.

Both- I want stripes horizontally across the t-shirt like the pattern's on a fire fish. I want the stripes to be all the way to the top with the collar and sleeves stripy all the way to the bottom. Though the children will choose where they want their stripes I hope they all will look the same as a group.

Method 1. Dye the whole T-shirt yellow first- wait until dry. Then tie the t-shirts up in elastic bands.

Dye the t-shirt orange then dip dye the top and bottom 2 inches red.

Method 2. Tie up the whole t-shirt in elastic bands in the stripy style with no base colour. Then dip dye. yellow at the bottom, orange in the middle (the majority of the t-shirt), and then red at the top.

Method 3. Dye the t-shirt a base colour of pale orange then tie up the t-shirt with sets of three elastic bands then a bigger space so that it is more alike to the patterns on a Firefish.  Then dye the whole t-shirt a bright orange then add red to the mix to make a burnt orange colour and dip dye the top and bottom with this then add more red for the last inch of the top and bottom.