After his previous tie-dye session Forrest was keen to do some more dyeing and make us another video. He enjoys twisting tie-dye spiral patterns so he dyed me a yellow, orange, and pink tie-dye spiral on a white Sea Shepherd shirt. I love the way it turned out, and...
I predicted that everyone would want a tie-dye hoodie after our low-water immersion hoodie and our bleach-dye hoodie – I was right. Next up is Gabrielle, who found a light grey hoodie and turned it into a tie-dye spiral hoodie. She chose purples and...
There’s something about the tie-dye spiral pattern that’s a bit like magic – you scrunch up a shirt, make pie slices with dye, and yet you end up with a fancy spiral. The fun of unwinding them NEVER wears off. If you want to try a tie-dye spiral this...
Patterned leggings are a bit of a thing for us – especially tie-dye leggings. We do parkrun, we hike, we cycle everywhere, and so leggings are kind of essential. And it’s fun to brighten them up a bit. Watch below to see how to tie-dye leggings in a...
Tie-dye jeans time! I found white jeans on clearance, but we are WAY too active for white anything – and there’s no way I’m soaking and bleaching jeans after every wear. Especially not ones the kids have covered in grass stains and mud and all the...
The girls thought that it was only fair that if Forrest got a tie-dye hoodie, they did too. So we went back to the shops and found a black hoodie, and decided to bleach then tie-dye over it. Watch our bleach-then-tie-dye hoodie video here! Admittedly, we went a little...
What’s a boy to do when he needs new t-shirts but doesn’t want the same boring thing that everyone else is wearing? Tie-dye his own, of course! Forrest chose two crumple tie-dye patterns and a spiral in a flame-like colourway. Watch below to see how a...
Shibori tie-dye is something I’d never tried – until now. I decided to try the arashi method first. This arashi shibori technique , aka. pole-wrapping shibori, involves tightly wrapping the fabric around a pipe to create the resist dyeing pattern. I...
Winter’s coming, and that means it’s hoodie time. And in this family that means tie-dye hoodies, of course. Just because the weather is grey and miserable doesn’t mean we have to be! Watch me low-water immersion dye a beige hoodie. This is such an...
Tie-dyeing can seem complicated. Lots of people talk about all different brands of dye, pre-soaking, mordants, and confusing multi-step processes. It’s enough to overwhelm lots of newbies. But tie-dyeing doesn’t have to be that complicated. It can be as...
