Valentines Day Shirts

Valentine's Shirts

    I have been wanting to batik a shirt after seeing this great tutorial from sweet verbana and then I knew I HAD to after seeing this tutorial at life of charmings.

    Luckily over the holiday break, I had time to hit the thrift stores. I brought this shirt home with the intent to try my hand at batiking.

     The ladies above have great tutorials and pics, but the process is pretty easy.

• Get your shirt wet.
• Using the gel glue, draw out your image/relief.
• Let it ALL dry completely.  Mine set for a couple of days
• Dye, I used fuchsia by RIT
• Rinse, wash, you may need to scrub the glue off.

     I have a hard time dumping the dye when I am done.  

     So....I went through my daughter's closet and found a white shirt (it had stains and had already served it's purpose as a white shirt). Therefore, I did a quick ombre dye. (I am ombre crazy)  She liked the idea of a Valentine shirt after seeing mine, but I had already dyed hers. Off I went to get the bleach pen, and I got to work.  I used the pen on the back, just free handed the word love.  Then added a little bling , flexible fabric glue and some sequins. 

I love to create, has been my inspiration for bleach pen shirts in the past.  WARNING, I usually only leave the bleach on for 5 minutes.  If it is left on too long, it will eat through the shirt.

Happy Valentine's Day

Lori