We had a fun afternoon of tie-dyeing T-shirts for our swim team.
You could bring your T-shirt anytime between 12:00 noon & 4:00pm,
but only needed about 30mins to complete your creation.
Here are a few pictures of the fun...
(we also did it in June 2004 - and created over 80 shirts)

	First you put your white T-shirt into a bucket with water and soda-ash, and let it sit for about 10mins. Just enough time to catch up on the days events. Here is one of several Tie-Dye websites... http://user.gru.net/tommason/tiedye.htm Here is where we obtain our supplies: Grateful Dyes - www.bestdye.com and their instructions
	After soaking for a few minutes, you take it out of the bucket, and decide how you want the design to appear ...basic spider web or spiral. Then you layout the T-shirt on the ground, and "wind" it up into a design. Next, you bind it with a few rubber-bands, and finally walk out to the yard for "dyeing". The dye is very permanent, and you MUST wear gloves, unless you want "blue skin".
These are a few of our swimmers out in the yard creating their designs.	A few of the younger designers, wearing gloves and using squirt bottles of "dye" to create their very own unique styles of T-shirts.
After the "dye" is applied, the soaking package is left for a moment, while "someone" goes to get a ziploc plastic bag to carry it home :) You can see a few "shirts" laying on the ground awaiting bags.	Here are 2 finished shirts awaiting their ziploc plastic bags.
A few designers are finished, and putting their shirts into plastics bags.	Here is the next crew, ready to put their T-shirts into the soaking buckets.
After staying in the sealed bag overnight, we were not quite sure how to handle the wet shirts & dye. We decided a bucket in the backyard was the best bet. So, again wearing gloves, we opened the bags and dumped the shirts into the bucket.	We gently hosed them down in the bucket, took them out of the dark blue/green water, and laid them out to see how they looked.
Here is a "spiral" pattern, with a nice array of color.	Here is a "spider" pattern, (folded/mirror image) that was tightly wound, and the dye could not soak into all the T-shirt.
The shirts were then tossed into the washer, with a little bit of dishwasher soap and run thru the washer a couple of times.