They came out looking awesome! The dye definitely got weaker as I kept going, but I was still happy with the results. My favorite was a shirt that started out light pink. I wrote lyrics to Matthew and I's song on it and then it ended up a deep pink with the dye. The words are hard to read (have you ever tried writing with glue?), but I know what it says. I can't believe I don't have a picture of it!
There. A before picture. Anywho, I ended up dying like five shirts and three onesies. I just realized that I only kept a couple of pictures.
The picture above is another one of my dyed shirts. It was originally gray (the color of the LOVE) and ity was dyed in the second batch - so it just turned a pale purple. I had used my bleach pen (below) and really liked the speckled look - so I added it to this shirt for a mixed-media pizzaz. That LOVE design was my original pattern for the bleach shirt.
I really wanted the bleach pen to work, so I gave it another whirl on this black shirt (which I bought at the Dollar Store). It failed. Again. I decided it must be old and thusly the bleach must be bad (does bleach go bad?) So I came up with a genious solution -- add straight bleach to the pen! It worked almost immediately! The only problem with the straight bleach was that it bled more than the gel. But I ended up liking the look. It also gave me the ability to flick it and make speckles. So happy with my shirts!
