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Totally Awesome Tie-Dye: Fun-to-Make Fabric Dyeing Projects for All Ages
With Totally Awesome Tie-Dye, it's fun and easy to dye and wear your own colorful clothing! Tie-dye is a wonderful way to turn simple fabrics and ready-made garments into dramatic fashion statements! This book teaches all of the most popular tie-dye techniques, including ice dyeing, crumple dyeing, resist, and Shibori. Author Suzanne McNeill shows beginners how to create a wide variety of designs and patterns, including stripes, spirals, swirls, speckles, chevrons, circles, pleats, and sunbursts! All you need to get started are inexpensive materials like fabric, string, rubber bands, a bucket and kettle, and dye. Totally Awesome Tie-Dye offers an array of stylish step-by-step projects that go way beyond T-shirts to include pants, dresses, socks, caps, scarves, embellishments for home décor, and more.
128 pages, Paperback
Published May 14, 2018
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June 1, 2024
The authors, Suzanne and Nicole, have laid out the book to make it easy to Tie-dye your clothing. The book has lots of great pictures and you can plan on using lots of rubber bands and even chopsticks to make your creations. The book shows different styles and it gives you step-by-step instructions for each different patter. You are guaranteed to make a mess and the authors provide instructions on avoiding making a huge one.
November 28, 2018
Looking for a fun event idea this summer? Consider throwing a tie-dye party!
This is great warm-weather fun! Perfect for VBS, birthdays, block parties, anytime.
My three kids have been dying to try tie-dye.
This book offers lots of different techniques that are easy enough for the kids to do on their own!
Why Totally Awesome Tie-Dye book is great:
There are easy tutorials.
There’s a list of all the items you could possibly need to make fun tie-dye creations.
We like the charts of basic methods to help with decisions.
The trouble-shooting guide is important to correct mistakes.
If you want to have a big tie-dye party, there’s a handy guide for that!
We had a little family tie-dye party.
I bought a big tie-dye kit with oodles of colors and plastic gloves.
We used disposable baking pans and did the tie-dye in the driveway to minimize mess.
We pre-washed the shirts so they were damp and then the kids got to work.
My son chose two-tone crumple.
We let the shirts sit overnight with plastic wrap so they would soak in all the dye. Then we washed them.
His favorite colors!
One daughter chose swirls with black spikes.
It turned out perfect!
Another daughter chose to spray dye.
It looks well-saturated.
She wants to redo it a bit with more dye. She was actually cautious for once!
We really love all the fun ideas in Totally Awesome Tie-Dye. There’s a Japanese technique, yarn dying, and lots of other fun projects we plan to try!
This is great warm-weather fun! Perfect for VBS, birthdays, block parties, anytime.
My three kids have been dying to try tie-dye.
This book offers lots of different techniques that are easy enough for the kids to do on their own!
Why Totally Awesome Tie-Dye book is great:
There are easy tutorials.
There’s a list of all the items you could possibly need to make fun tie-dye creations.
We like the charts of basic methods to help with decisions.
The trouble-shooting guide is important to correct mistakes.
If you want to have a big tie-dye party, there’s a handy guide for that!
We had a little family tie-dye party.
I bought a big tie-dye kit with oodles of colors and plastic gloves.
We used disposable baking pans and did the tie-dye in the driveway to minimize mess.
We pre-washed the shirts so they were damp and then the kids got to work.
My son chose two-tone crumple.
We let the shirts sit overnight with plastic wrap so they would soak in all the dye. Then we washed them.
His favorite colors!
One daughter chose swirls with black spikes.
It turned out perfect!
Another daughter chose to spray dye.
It looks well-saturated.
She wants to redo it a bit with more dye. She was actually cautious for once!
We really love all the fun ideas in Totally Awesome Tie-Dye. There’s a Japanese technique, yarn dying, and lots of other fun projects we plan to try!
January 2, 2023
Instructional.
March 11, 2022
"At its heart, tie-dye is a simple craft: it's about adding color to fabric. It's the range of colors you can use and the myriad of ways to manipulate the fabric that make it so versatile and exciting... Fold, twist, pleat, or crumple the fabric, and tie it with very basic materials - a rubber band or string, for example...
Tie-dye techniques have been used for centuries all over the world, from Nigeria to pre-Columbian Peru to Japan to Thailand. Modern psychedelic tie-dyeing became popular in the late 1960s as rock stars donned brightly colored tie-dyed T-shirts, and their fans followed." Introduction - pg. 6
With five chapters covering topics such as; How Tie-Dye Works to What Went Wrong this book is chock full of Inspiring designs that are well laid out with materials and instruction lists along with step-by-step colour photographs. The pages are grouped by colour differentiation based on techniques, which allows the reader to have a quick reference guide. Totally Awesome Tie-Dye is colourful fun, which makes Me happy, and will be a long-term resource in sparking My Creative fire.
Tie-dye techniques have been used for centuries all over the world, from Nigeria to pre-Columbian Peru to Japan to Thailand. Modern psychedelic tie-dyeing became popular in the late 1960s as rock stars donned brightly colored tie-dyed T-shirts, and their fans followed." Introduction - pg. 6
With five chapters covering topics such as; How Tie-Dye Works to What Went Wrong this book is chock full of Inspiring designs that are well laid out with materials and instruction lists along with step-by-step colour photographs. The pages are grouped by colour differentiation based on techniques, which allows the reader to have a quick reference guide. Totally Awesome Tie-Dye is colourful fun, which makes Me happy, and will be a long-term resource in sparking My Creative fire.
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