SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Tulip® Ice Tie-Dye Kit
- 100% Cotton Shirt
- Ice
- Bucket
DIRECTIONS:
- Wash your shirt (or other fabric item) and leave damp. You don't have to presoak your fabric in soda ash before dyeing because Tulip Tie-Dye contains soda ash in the formula. Lay your damp fabric out flat on your covered work surface and decide which tie-dye technique you would like to create before adding your dyes. With the ice dye technique, the crumple tie-dye technique works great, but you can experiment with other techniques if desired.
- Place your damp shirt on the rack (over a bucket is recommended to catch the dye as it melts). Scrunch your shirt into a tight mound and use rubber bands to hold the fabric tightly in place. Cover your entire project with ice.
- (For the ice tie-dye technique, you don’t need to mix your One-Step Dyes with water before dyeing your project. The ice is going to do the work.)
- Remove the nozzles from your dye bottles and sprinkle the powder randomly over the ice. You can add as many dye colors as you like.
- Once you’ve added your dye powders, let the ice completely melt. As the ice melts, it will transfer the dyes to the shirt underneath for cool watercolor patterns. Depending on where you live and the weather temperature, it could take a while for the ice to melt or not much time at all. If the ice melts quickly, you can then place your project into a sealable bag and allow the dye to set for 6 to 8 hours. If it takes about this long for the ice to melt, it’s time to skip the bag and move on to the next step
- Once your ice has melted, remove the rubber bands.
- Rinse, wash and dry according to your instruction guide.
Rated 1 out of
5
by
KWal from
Ice Dye Fail..
Your directions didn't match the pictures, where you showed putting the dye on, and then the ice!. I followed the written directions, put on a mound of ice (maybe too much? should it have been just a layer of ice cubes?) and then sprinkled the dye. it look really good when the ice had melted, put it in plastic bag over night, and the next day, rinsed them out. Alas, 90% of the pretty colors rinsed away :( the shirt was 100% cotton, had been washed, and was damp. was really bummed... barely a hint of dye. Looks like I ran it through the wash with some unfast dyes..
Date published: 2021-07-16