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By admin, March 30, 2009 5:50 am

This is a homemade gift idea we had some fun with a number of years ago. Tie-dye clothing is a good gift idea at home, because each one is unique, you can customize the colors that are fun to do fairly easy and many people love to receive them. This could be one of those present at home difficult that men would like. You can apply to almost tie-dye everything is cotton … T-shirts, socks, clothing for toddlers. There are many techniques for create unique designs.

Materials …

• Ritdye. This brand has worked very well, the creation of vibrant colors Nice. No luck with another brand that came in bottles of Squirt, the color was dull.
• Cotton clothing. Socks, shirts, clothing for children, anything made of cotton will work. I've seen examples of bed linen and curtains too. Just remember to use elements that are at least 60% cotton, preferably 100%. Polyester mixtures will not be as vibrant. The more cotton you're on the subject, the more vibrant the color will be. You can get a lot cheap T-shirt 100% cotton Michael.
• Rubber bands or string to tie to the theme. This creates a unique bond contrast effect.
• A cube 3 gallons for each color
• Rubber gloves
• Long wooden spoon does not care to receive permanent dyeing
• Clothes or sponges cleaning – again, the disease is permanently dyed
• Something to cover the work surface such as plastic trash bags, because the process can be very complicated

Instructions:

There are a number of techniques for designs that you can found on the Internet. Rit has a few pages of your website ritdye.com "> in the techniques and tutorials.

1. Consider shrink your clothes in the washer and dryer.
2. Prepare your dye bath (s) according to the instructions on the package of Rit dye. The warmer the water is the most vibrant color will be.
3. Working from the color than the darker color, soak the clothing in each bath for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally. After each dive, rinse the garment.
4. After the last dye bath, rinse the garment in warm water and then in cold water until water runs clear.
5. Wash clothes with warm water and detergent and rinse with cold water.
6. Repeat step 5, again without detergent. This is only for garments do not bleed into other gift recipients clothing when washed together.
7. Let dry and you're hanging.

Dude … now has some wicked-cool clothing to give away!

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