r/tiedye

Idk how I feel about it. Looks alright for the first attempt. Was hoping for my saturation up top.

Getting ready for summer 🌞

I was not happy with these, but upon further review, I am liking them a lot better, and getting a lot of positive comments, so thank you all..

Of the three I did last night, this is the only one that came out worth a crap.

Azure, Grecian & Royal. Tried the same fold as my 41, bit I fucked up drawing the curvy line. Ah well, love the blues. 😁

when wet (the darker photo of the bag, it looks decent, but dried it just looks faded 😭 (the small dots are rain drops, just wanted to show bag in outside lighting) i’m making these for charity, 47! of them, the bags were given to me by the organizer they are from amz and claim to be 100 cotton but the handles definitely are not 😑
here are my steps:

Synthrapol wash
soda ash soak 2cups / 2gallons for about four hours and wrung out

my dye colors are dharma split dyes 64 ORCHID and 76 WEDGEWOOD BLUE

im guessing that i probably put too much as the dyes did not split barely at all.

but now they are dry they are just sooo washed out 😭 how do i get the color more vibrant and have them split? open to ice dye and crystal/low immersion dyeing.

also it was very hot during this dyeing process, but will be cooler for the next few days

i am looking for a nice abstraction with beautiful moments. is it possible the bags are not cotton or can i help get more vibrant. i have a lot of them to make that are needed to be ready in 11days. buying new bags is not an option.

these are my color options

Dharma Fiber Reactive Procion Dyes:
139 Mist Gray
140 Sage Green
105 Pewter
157 Celadon (T)
85 Seafoam
76 Wedgewood Blue
77 Alpine Blue (T)
83 Wisteria
61 Ice Blue
64 Orchid
51 Plum Blossom (T)
187 Sweet Pea

Spiraled dry. Flipped upside down, sprayed with soda ash water. Dusted Dreamy Night (went light, 2.5% dye by weight) only from Dyespin. Placed the dusted side down in a muck container. Placed ice around the edges to encourage the ice melt to go up and into the shirt encouraging the different colors to split in travel into the dry shirt. Not a lot of ice. There was no standing water to be seen. Batched outside in 100f for 4 hours and washed.

Picture 3 and 4 show the top of the shirt. The dye you see there traveled from the bottom.

What do you think?

Happy to see you!:)

Any tips / good videos are greatly appreciated

Watched lots of videos and finally I made some things I actually really like!

Even with pariah this tie is so hard to get sateration...

Had this tied up for a long time and forgot what it was 😂 the diamond mandala was a surprise

3 unique, mostly unique roll variations of my own. I'm willing to bet they don't come out all that different!