Wrap several rubber bands around the disk. The tighter you scrunch it, the more white areas there will be in the final shirt. Starting at one end of your line, begin making small accordion pleats. Follow along the drawn line, folding the pleats in such as way that the marker line appears straight on the top of the folds. This means that you’ll be making the pleats a little deeper on the outside section and a little shallower on the inside section to accommodate the curve of the line. This chevron design is a variation of the diagonal stripe designs that we learned above. Here’s how to make a tie-dye chevron: John put the phone down and I sat there in silence, soaking in the wonderful atmosphere his joyous phone call had created. He was just so sweet, adorable, humble and loved talking tie-dye! You know, medium grade marijuana. They were saying, ‘Boy, there’s no pot here, please bring some.’ So I did, and I lasted a couple of weeks, and then the management told me by remote control that I was no longer needed because I was a bad influence on [guitarist] Zal Yanovsky, who by then was playing in The Mugwumps, but the guy who had to deliver the message was the younger guy, whose name was Bob Cavallo – who would… within like, the next day, say, ‘Look, okay, so you know I’m kind of an underling here, but if you ever need management or anything, give me a call.’ And so it was when eventually The Mugwumps disintegrated, that Zal brought Bob Cavallo to the team, and I brought Erik Jacobson.

This technique starts out the same way as the previous design. In the pictures above, reference the folding diagram on the right and the finished orange shirt. To make shibori-inspired triangle folds: Until one morning, that is, when he woke up, hung-over after a big show, with a naked young girl stone-cold dead in the bed next to him… and everything changed, again. Only this time, for the so-much-worse.

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Following the diagram above, fold the shirt in half along the diagonal line. The shirt is now folded in eighths. There are lots of different tie-dye patterns and folding techniques that you can use to create unique designs. Here are a few of the various designs you can create with tie-dye. 1. Spiral or Swirl Tie Dye The best type of dye to use for tie-dye projects is fiber-reactive dye. This type of dye, often called Procion MX dye, is much brighter, longer-lasting, and easier to use than other all-purpose dyes. It is formulated to work with natural fibers like cotton and linen.

There's one big no no Jess sees happen again and again: "The biggest mistake that people make, is getting too excited, untying and rinsing it before it's set. They open up it up, and it looks beautiful, and then they realise the next day that the dye has seeped because it's not had time to set, or the pattern disappears, and it turns into a big splodge." Ooh, I love a book title with a clever pun, and Max Tomlinson’s Tie Die has the added bonus of immediately giving the reader some idea of the era in which it is set. Have you guessed yet? This mystery novel opens in the 1960s and then jumps into the 1970s, when tie dye clothing was king. It’s, you know, offers. All it is, is offers. I can’t just say, ‘Oh, I’d really like to play the Royal Albert Hall,’ you know?” Cut to more than a decade later, 1978 San Francisco. A new-to-the-job private investigator, one Colleen Haynes, gets a call from a prospective client, whose daughter has been kidnapped. After accepting the usual “don’t-tell-the-police-or-else” instructions, she agrees to meet, to see if she can be of help. And of course, you can use a lot of these folding techniques for bleach dying or reverse tie-dying. To learn more about that process, don’t miss my articles about How to Bleach Tie-Dye a Sweatshirt and 5 Folding Techniques for Bleach Tie Dye. More Tie Dye Tutorials

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Tie-dye is a popular fabric dyeing technique known for its bright, saturated colors and bold patterns. It’s one of those nostalgic, feel-good crafts that never seem to go out of style. Buying a dye kit is the best option here- as they include other tools you’ll need for the process. All you have to do is choose which colours you like best. The better dyes are the Procion dyes. 3. Grab the Tools You Need

Doing it outdoors makes the clean up easier and less risky, but indoors is fine says Jess; "You just need a plastic sheet for covering for your surfaces, wear an apron or old clothes and definitely avoid dying over carpet."Imagine her surprise when the father turns out to be none other than Steve Cook—the lead singer of a long-ago band (which mysteriously disbanded), whose music she briefly listened to during a rough patch in her long-ago marriage—all grown up. It’s not that a few offers haven’t come in, but it really is a period in my life when, in this last year and a half, I have had two grandchildren, so it was like kind of, you know, kind of a little thumb-wiggling, ‘Fellas, you had a great chance there, and no, the window closed for a while!’ but it will open up again.” Warning: Spoilers for Only Murders In The Building Episode 4 follow. After the poisoning of Winnie at the end of Episode 3, much of Episode 4, “The Sting,” focused on the building’s biggest celebrity resident. Oliver was convinced Sting was the man behind his dog’s illness and Tim Kono’s death — so convinced, in fact, that he cooked a 19-pound turkey just to get himself into the man’s apartment. Tie dye is a method of dying using your hands where you tie various small sections of a clothing item with a string, and then immerse it in a tub full of water and dye. The end result is unique coloured patterns on the fabric. It creates this effect as the dye fails to reach the tied sections, creating irregular circles, dots and stripes. You can choose whatever colour dye you like and you can immerse any clothing item you like, or sheet, tea towel- anything! The Tie Dye Resurgence TIP: You can also combine the different techniques on one item, for example a bullseye in the centre and scrunch allover the rest. Leaving to set/dry