Tie Dye Fun
(Side note, check out that Terry Bradshaw hairline!)
Just before my little Hunter came along, my dear hippy crafting friend Kynna came over and we got to tie dying (why do I always want to type Tye Dye?). I was eager to create some tie dyed onesies for my little one to be and I wasn’t sure if the baby was a boy or girl or if his/her middle name would be Sunshine or not. In case you think that’s sarcasm, it’s not, we are still thinking about Sunshine for the next one! Anyhow, we thought tie dye would be adorable for any baby and my mother in law had bought me some plain white onesies so I was ready to roll. I hadn’t tie dyed since summer camp many years ago but I figured it couldn’t be too difficult if children could do it right?
I picked up a tie dye starter kit at Michaels and away we went. We had a few ideas involving swirls and patterns but mostly we just decided to be experimental. We tied and dyed for about 20 or 30 minutes and had 5 onesies ready to roll. It was fast, fun, and easy, what a great project! It was as easy as I remembered it and I could not have been happier with the results if I tried. Basically you mix up your dyes in squirt bottles (as per dye instrcutions), put some thickish rubber bands all over the onesie (or whatever you happen to be dying) and squirt away as you see fit.
The instructions for this particular dye called for saran wrapping the onesies once they were dyed and leaving them for 6 hours. We tried a couple at 2 hours and the others over night. The ones we left over night came out much darker, which I liked, although if you wanted a more pastel look I would leave them for less than 2 hours. Thanks for some good fun Kynna!
