- Hey, everybody! Today, I'm doing the first and what I hope to be many craft videos. See, before quarantine,
I actually didn't know I liked doing crafts, and
then quarantine happened, and I was in my house, and
I just really got into it. And then I realized,
it's this great outlet for me to express my creativity, and crafts don't have to be cheesy. They can be really cool. One of the things I got
really into is tie dye and dying techniques. This shirt right here
I actually made myself, and this particular type
of tie dye is super easy, and we're gonna do it today. In fact, we're gonna try several
different tie dye designs. So if you've never done tie dye or you're planning to tie dye soon, you should watch this video
'cause you're gonna learn lots of things that you
did not know you could do with tie dye, and I think that's
why I'm so obsessed with it is you really can create
your own masterpiece. Everything I'm showing you
here today is one way to do it, but you can take bits and
pieces of everything we do and create your own tie dye masterpiece. And that's what makes it so much fun is putting your own little stamp on it. I hope you watch this video and take what you learned
from it and just have fun and begin to enjoy crafting
just as much as I do. So we're gonna start with a
few little tips and tricks to make sure that your tie day is perfect. First and foremost, look
for shirts like this one that are primarily cotton. The biggest mistake
people make when tie dying is they pick the wrong fabric. Cotton is your best friend. Can you dye blends? Sometimes. Some will work better than others, but it's a little hit or miss, and you have to know that going into it. But if you stick with something
that's primarily cotton, you're likely gonna get the best results and the boldest colors. Two, be careful what dye you use. There are dyes that are made
specifically for tie dye. In fact, I'm using today
the Tulip One-Step dyes, which I really think are great if you've never tie dyed before to use that are gonna be a lot easier than using something like a Rit dye, which A, needs a heavier concentration and uses primarily a dunking bath and tends to be bleed and fade over time. So stick to those dyes made for tie dye. They will work the best. Third, always presoak your
item in water before dying it. It sounds counterintuitive, but it helps the dye
spread in the garment. So if you don't have it wet, the dye doesn't get in as deep and you get a lot more
white in the design. Now, if you want more
white in your design, then don't wet your garment before dying because the dye will spread less, so things to think about. So with that, let's jump
into some techniques. The first technique I'm gonna start with is using this large,
oversized men's T-shirt, and we're gonna do the
quintessential swirl pattern. So the design we're doing
now is the simple swirl, which is the most common tie dye design. When you think tie dye, you
usually think of this design. So what you're gonna do
is first grab the center of a shirt, and you're gonna
just start to twist it, holding on to that center piece, and just twist and twist. You're gonna get to a point where everything moves with you. So all you're gonna do
is bring that around, pause and bring that around, okay? So now we have a nice swirl shape. Once we have this nice side clone, maybe like snail shell shape,
we need to rubber band it. Now most tie dye kits will
come with rubber bands, but from my experience,
they're usually not adequate. So I just buy a big
old bag of rubber bands so that A, I never run out and B, I have a lotta different
options in terms of sizes. So I'm gonna go and take my rubber bands and I'm gonna bind my shell together. Now, the important thing
to remember with this type of tie dye is that it doesn't matter how tightly you band it because
all of your color gradation is coming from that wrap. So it's more important for you to kind of tease the fabric around as you put the rubber bands on it so it maintains the swirl than it is for you to
make sure the rubber bands are super tight. And that is our first tie dye wrapped. Now we get to tie dye it. Before I dye the piece,
I'm gonna soak it in water. This is gonna allow the
dyes to soak deeper, and it's gonna make less white
space in the design overall. Since this piece is pretty traditional, I'm sticking traditional with colors and using a nice rainbow palette. So when I apply dye, I actually
use this cookie drying rack that I picked up at a local store. This allows the dye to
actually fall to the bottom and not muddle underneath the
garment when you're dying. This is gonna give you a crisper look to all of your colors. So here, I'm just applying
the dye to the front, flipping it over and then
applying the same colors to the back, and I'm
really trying to get them in there deep so it's a
fully saturated shirt. I let the shirt dry completely after it was done being tie dyed, and then I washed it, and
this is the final result. I am obsessed. It's exactly what I wanted. (upbeat music) So now you might see that I'm
starting with a black T-shirt, and you're like, "Uh, how
are you gonna tie dye that?" Well, with the black T-shirt, we can do something really cool, which is called reverse tie dye. Now, what that means is
there's two dye steps in this tie dye. The first is going to be
bleaching parts of the garment, and the second is going
to be applying the dye. So first, let's get this garment
bound and ready to bleach. Preparing the shirt we're
dying is super easy. You're just gonna start at one corner and bind all the way
down with rubber bands until you have a long fabric tube. So now we need to
prepare a bleach solution to bleach out our shirt. So I'm using two parts
water and one part bleach and then putting them together
in a little spray bottle, which I'll use to apply
the bleach to the shirt. And then I just go ham and
spray it all over the shirt on both the front and back side of it. Then I use my hands to massage
it in just to make sure the bleach really gets in there and takes up enough of the color. And then you wait. The shirt can take up an hour
and a half to lift the dye depending on how strong it is. So just be prepared that
it's gonna take some time. Then once it's lightened to
stage you feel comfortable, dip it in a bowl of water
to basically stop the bleach from activating, and
then open up your shirt and rinse it completely. This is just making sure
all the bleach is out and you're ready for the next
step, which is gonna be dying. So I then let my shirt dry
out so it was ready for dye, and I started applying
a rainbow set of dyes. Now, these are dyes I just had leftover from doing the swirl shirt design. So it's a great way to use
up just little small pieces of dye you have left
because you don't need a ton of dye to fill in the light spots. And this is the final results. Again, I'm super happy
with how it came out. I think it's a really
interesting and unique design, and it's not that hard to execute. - It takes some time. (cheerful music) So the shirt we're gonna do
now and the reason it's last is 'cause it's the most complicated. We're gonna do a double
swirl ice dyed shirt. First thing to note about this is it uses an entirely different dyeing method than we use for any of the other shirts, which we'll look at when we
get to the dying portion. Right now, we're just gonna show you how to get this beauty wrapped, and it is a little bit
more work, but it's, oh my gosh, totally worth it. And the first thing I'm gonna
do is just fold it in half. Then I'm gonna pick a spot where I want to make my first swirl, and I'm gonna swirl it
twice and then stop. No more swirlage. Then I'm gonna pick
another spot in the shirt that's close by, and I'm
gonna swirl in a direction that kind of swirls into the other swirl. And then I'm gonna take all the fabric and just wrap it around the outside to maintain those two swirls. And I'm gonna just rubber band that sucker as fast as I can to maintain the shape. Now, you can use as many rubber bands as you need for this one. We're not using them for
grids or anything else because this tie dye shirt
has a really interesting way we're gonna dye it, and it doesn't use any of the
grid lines or color placement that any of the other types of shirts use. So it'll be fun. She's ready to go. So for the kaleidoscope dye, you're actually gonna need a paper ring. So this is a piece of poster board I had left from another
project, and I'm just cutting it so it's a little bit less deep. Bink! And then I'm gonna make it
into a circle like this, and I'll just staple or
somehow fasten this together. - So we're gonna take the shirt we prepped and place it on our tray and then put the paper tube around it. Now, this is important
because after we've secured it around the T-shirt,
we're actually gonna fill the extra space at the top
with a whole bunch of ice. Yes, we're dying this shirt with ice. So typically, on this type of shirt, you do different dyes on each side. So on this side, I'm doing cool colors, greens, blues, and purples, and I'm just putting the
powders directly top of the ice, and they're gonna dye the
shirt as the ice cubes melt. So once we've got all
the powders on there, literally just leave this alone, and wait for the ice to
melt and do the work for us. Then we flip the shirt over, put it back in the tube and
use our next set of colors. I'm using warmer colors this round, re-coating the shirt
with a whole bunch of ice and then again powdering
that sucker to high heaven and leaving it out in the sun
to melt and dye our shirt. You really can get a whole
bunch of different depths of color using this. So for pastels, use less powder, and for bold, vibrant colors, use more. I could not be more excited
about how this shirt turned out. I love that you can see all
the different colors in there. It's kind of like this
interesting watercolor look, and it's just different
than most tie dye you see, and that's why it's
actually my favorite style of tie dye to do because it
really looks, it looks fancy. It's like fancy tie dye. Thanks so much for tidying with me today. Let me know if you liked it down below, and if you wanna see
more tie dye tutorials, also let me know that 'cause I have many other
ways I know how to tie dye, and I have just a deep desire
to continue tie dying things. I don't know what's happened to me. I'm like a tie dye machine now, and all I wanna do is just have some fun. No, (laughs) all I wanna
do is tie dye some more. Sheryl Crow reference, I
hope somebody got that. So with that, guys, links to everything I used are down below. If you have any questions,
comments, or concerns, ya know where to leave 'em. If you like what you saw, hit subscribe. I hope you have an
amazing rest of your day. I'll check you later, and peace. (upbeat music)
