Dyeing tshirts and yardage

Some days are just not studio days. Today was a dyeing day. last night i got my tshirts and yardage all washed and soaking in the buckets. i decided to use Susan Italo's method of dyeing today. in her words..it is 'loosey-goosey'...LOL    no hard and fast rules. basically, put the soda ash in the bucket of fabric to soak....check.  put warm water in a bucket with some salt....check. mix your dyes as usual and use a cup of salt water. plop in your fabric....let set 4 hours and rinse.

i had 9 buckets of tshirts

and 6 buckets of yardage

i dyed 9 tshirts and 6 1-yard pieces of PFD unbleached muslin. i found some new dye colors at Dharma a few weeks ago and had to try them. i got mist gray, bright green, hot pink, and mink brown.

i started at 8am and by 1:30 everything was hanging on the line. great fun.  i rinsed quite a bit out of the shirts and then hung them on the line and took the hose and rinsed them some more. i figured that was easier and quicker than in the kitchen sink. they are all looking new and spiffy. i am thinking that i am not done with them yet and will do either more dyeing, stamping, painting, something. and/or some embellishment of trims and buttons and stuff. that part of the plan is still percolating in my brain.

from the left...bright green; mink brown; chartreause; some kind of red (i forget the name); hot pink

From the left...forest green, imperial purple, bright yellow, mist gray.

the yellow one with the hand prints on it was a white tshirt that i had that was given to me by my godchild when she went on a trip to dallas. i decided it needed some color, too. it is a shirt advertising weeks dye goods. all the rest were new shirts from walmart in the men's department.

bright yellow and imperial purple yardage

mist gray and mink brown. i rolled the brown one up and twisted it...kind of different.

hot pink and forest green

I really like having dye play days. perhaps i should dye my socks to match my shirts. wish i had thought of that sooner.....i could have done them together. perhaps next time. LOL