Pinterest Hits and Misses

I thought I would share some of the pins from Pinterest that I have tried along with the results.  The first few will be text only, after that hopefully I will remember to take pics.

Most recent attempt:  I don’t know whether to call it a hit or a miss.  Tie-dye type T-shirts made with sharpies and rubbing alcohol. This was a project for when Angel (my granddaughter) was here for her summer visit.

It seemed simple enough.   Necessary items:   Sharpies (we chose neon colored), rubbing alcohol, and a silo cup with a rubber band (we opted for an embroidery hoop).

Thankfully we did a test shirt.  Made a nickel size spot in one color, moved a bit away and made another nickel sized spot.  We did this for the entire hoop area.  Then we added alcohol.  It bled (as was expected), but the original spots were still there and obvious as spots no matter how many times we diluted them with the alcohol.   There were several attempts with less marker in the spot. Same result or very little bleeding.  MISS

Since this was a project that was supposed to result in gifts for her friends, we decided to try another approach.  Ang had free range to put any design she wanted on the shirts and we would use the alcohol to bleed them and then wash them.  Another test shirt came out satisfactory.
5 finished One Direction shirts later I call it a HIT.   

I don’t know if they will continue to bleed as they are washed.  I have advised they be washed separately.