Remember tie
dye tee shirts? My grandson had seen his grandmother wearing an old tie-dye
shirt when he last visited us and he, in his craft class at his small school had made some tie-dye shirts. He wanted to make some shirts with his
grandma.
We thought
it would be fun and give us a memento give him a memory to remember. So, my wife
and daughter on one of their trips to town bought plain white Tee shirts for
all of us and bought the fixing to make tie-dye shirts.
So, on a
hot summer’s day in Australia in January we created our memories. First, we
read the instructions to make sure we understood what we had to do, second, we
gathered all of the ingredients and followed the instructions to make sure the
ingredients were set up properly. It took time to decide what type of design
each of us wanted and then it took longer to fix the shirt in the way we
thought would best make the design. The first step after creating your design was
to soak the Tee shirts in soda ash for twenty minutes to make sure that the
material would absorb the dye. The second step was to apply the dye. There are
many sites on the Internet that will give you quick ideas on how to make tie-dye shirts,
shoes, silk ties etc.
We each
took time to create our own tee shirts and while one person was applying the
dye, the others were providing advice, sometimes, good, sometimes not good,
sometimes wanted, most times not needed. We did have fun, laughed a lot, and as you can see
from the pic below, the effort was well worth it.
We did such a great job on
our shirts that we made shirts for our grandchildren at home as well as our
son, who had to leave for home before we decided to complete this project. My daughter
and her guy said they would only wear their shirts at home, I am going to wear
mine proudly when I go out and when I golf, but the weather has to warm up a
great deal before I can move to summer wear. My grandson, wore his shirt every
day for a week and was very proud of his efforts. He loved making the tee shirt
with his grandma and it, hopefully, will be a memory that he will have for a
long time.
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