The theme for our Girl Scout Day Camp this year was of course the one-hundredth anniversary of Girl Scouts in the United States. We did a different decade each day -- Tuesday was the 'teens, Wednesday the Forties (we made a no-bake ration cake), and Thursday was the 1970s. We made tie-dyed bandanas that day, and there was enough dye left over to bring home the leftovers and do some more stuff ourselves.
I got a couple of "hobo bags" from Michaels as well as some t-shirts.
The bags are from Simplicity, only a few dollars so they're not super-fancy, but are fully lined (cotton knit on the outside, cotton muslin on the inside) with a large pocket divided in two on one side.
The bandanas that we did at camp were a kit with triangular bandanas, wash, pre-soak, and yellow, red, and blue dyes. Julia, though often so meticulous about her art, did this random tie with equally-random splotches of dye.
Laura pleated hers before tying. It was so black when we brought it home in the Ziploc bag that I did not have much hope for it by the next day, but quite a lot of the blue rinsed out, leaving this wonderful purple with a surprising and very cool red streak.
I was hoping for the same dark-purple effect on the t-shirt later, but despite also being 100% cotton the fabric took the dye much differently, and much more of the dye rinsed out. This was a sort of scrumble-tie, just gathering it all up into a kind of disc shape and tying across with the rubber bands. It is still fascinating to me how differently fabrics take the same dye, as well as the different effects you can get with the same tying method -- the bag at the top is also pleated-and-tied. Maybe the pre-soak also had some effect on the bandanas, keeping the colors so much brighter?
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