Same shirt after washing below. Personally I would rather they stay the darker/brighter colors, but I haven't figured out how to do it. Just leave the colors on as long or longer than the directions say to.
Here are the shirts all lined up and ready for the reunion. Mine below is with the iron-on decal.
I used Tulip® T-shirt Transformers which I bought on clearance at Jo-Ann's for $.97. I think it was well worth the bargain price. L. is actually coveting my shirt and she'll probably get it once the reunion is over...maybe.
And since we still had a little bit of dye left over we went ahead and colored this bag that we store our baseball bases in. I don't think we'll lose it, do you? I really just wish it would remain this bright once it gets washed. Oh well.......long live tie dye! O.K. maybe not.One of the kits we bought also had some glitter spray that you add at the very end. All 3 girls wanted that on their shirts. I would've taken a picture but you can't really see it that way. Let me just say that they love it. It does look cool in the sunlight. We also bought some glow-in-the-dark spray for the boys' shirts. It works! We tried it out.
Cool. can't wait to see the glow in the dark. And I wonder why they wash out so much. the ones Em did for us are also muted. Who knows the trick out there to keep them saturated?
ReplyDeleteI've left it on for several days to make it darker/brighter.
ReplyDeleteLove your shirts!
The reunion is going to be hilarious!!!
ReplyDeleteWe went to Myrtle Beach last summer, where my older girl made a tie-dyed shirt. The people helping her told her not to wash it that night, and the next morning, she had to go dunk it in the ocean to help set the color. They also told me to hold off on washing it as long as I could, to help keep the color. It isn't as vibrant as yours, but it still looks great!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine told me that you should use 100% cotton tees for the best color.
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