tiedye

I am going to attempt to do tie dye with a STEM camp.
Back in the old days, we used to make buckets of dye and dip them in.
Nowadays, you use squirt bottles.

Most of the instructions I found boiled down to :

cotton/mostly cotton

Prewash

Dye wet

wrap/fold/scrunch as desired

Rubber bands

squirt dye where you want it – soak it

Let set 24 hrs in plastic bag (gallon baggie)

labels for names on bag (masking tape)

Rinse cold 1st with rubberbands on, then remove and rinse til clear

Plastic bag to take home

Wash alone or with old towel for a few washes
(this is one of the resources https://www.cantonpl.org/blogs/post/everything-you-need-to-know-for-tie-dying-at-home/ )

materials :
Gloves
Dye
squirt Bottles
Rubber bands
gallon Baggies
Plastic table cloths/garbage bags (protect surface)
rags
aprons?

I got a couple of white cotton t-shirts and a tie dye kit (this one has 18 different colors, premixed in bottles and is supposed to do 36 projects)(another good brand HTVront). I pre-washed (and dried), brought it to school and got it damp. Then picked a few colors out and added water to those bottles. I found this website ( https://sarahmaker.com/tie-dye-patterns/ ) that talks about different ways to wrap/twist/fold your garment.

I attempted sunburst
 

this is the front and the back

 

And here is the spiral
 

front and back

I rinsed each out for a few minutes and wrung them out…but they still had some dye & water in them, enough to drip on the floor. So I rinsed the dye out a little more.

I think they came out fine, though I should be more careful with dyes at the beginning…i got some drops into areas of another color.
I also need to find a thinner t-shirt material. These are a bit thick/heavy.
What are your tie dye stories?