Another Intermission

As we did last year, we made another batch of tie dyed t-shirts for our family's annual trip to Walt Disney World.  This year, we tied our own shirts except for the hidden Mickeys on these (last year, dh did it all).    My dh is good at them, so he put one or more on each shirt.  Oldest dd got one mailed to her while we were gone as a surprise. 

After last year's faded dye look, I emailed Dharma Trading and asked about handling tie dye in a front loading washing machine.  They answered that the only thing to do differently would be to do a brief soak in very hot water in the sink using Synthrapol, then washing in the machine per the directions on a very long cycle.  Well, I guess I really wanted to NOT have the faded look again so I must've used a lot more dye in the dye soak.  These are really dark and unless the tied places were super tight, the dye bled through.  Needless to say, dh wins the prize in tying tightly...and irritatingly.  He had his wrapped around 2 PVC pipes which I don't even want to think about because let's just say that I had dye all over the kitchen with that set up!


Here they are:

From top left:  oldest dd, dh, youngest dd
Bottom: ds, mine--it had some embroidery on it which didn't dye but looks kinda neat that way.

For those who don't know and are interested, you can read more about hidden Mickeys here.

Intermission and a Little Bit of Sewing

We had a small family intermission.  Here's a peek at a small project our family worked on prior to our annual family vacation to Walt Disney World:

In the sink and ready for the big reveal!



My shirt - back



My shirt - front





DH Shirt

 

Youngest DD's shirt





Oldest DD's shirt


 

DS's shirt














Notice all the clever hidden Mickey Mouse outlines on the shirts.  That was DH's work--he tied them all and was able to get the Mickeys on them all in various places.  I thought they were neat!  We have a front loading washing machine and I don't think the dye is as crisp as I used to get when we had a top loading machine. 


The only sewing involved was shortening the top I bought for oldest dd.  It was nearly dress length!  Her comment once I'd rehemmed it was that hem looked just like it did before--well, yeah!

Many thanks to the input on my last post.  I have definitely decided to make the pique into the Butterick pattern.  I've been working on that since we got home.  We have some changes for youngest dd, but more on that later!

Here I thought that blogger had made it easier to upload photos only to realize that it all looks wacky when you preview it!  I sure hope I have it fixed or this is going to look strange!  Sorry!