If so, how did the project turn out? I don’t need it to be perfect, but don’t want to spend alot of time making it and need to do some quickly.
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#1 by Kacky on August 1st, 2011
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I haven’t used it but I have been crafting for more than 40 years and I have yet to have a project turn out perfect the first time. If you can make that happen, you are more talented than me. ESPECIALLY if you can’t put any time into it.
Can you compromise on the time issue by doing a small project with some of it, just to see how it works before you go ahead with the main thing?
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#2 by Paula B on August 1st, 2011
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The results of the Magic Tie Dye Strings are kind of blah in comparison to using a good tie-dye kit, but if that’s what you have, you can use it.
The dye in Magic Tie Dye Strings is a type of dye called Direct Dye, the same dye that’s in all-purpose dyes such as Rit. It is kind of dull in color, and it does not attach very firmly to the fabric. It will run in the laundry forever. You will have to be careful to hand-wash your results in cold water, because hot water will make it run worse.
To use the Magic Tie Dye Strings, you can’t just use hot water from the tap. You need to use boiling water. Tie up your shirt (which must be 100% cotton, no polyester) with as many strings as you can. More strings means more dye, since the dye is in the strings (they’ve been soaked in it). Don’t put red strings next to green ones, or blue next to orange, or yellow next to violet, because the colors will mix to give you a yucky muddy brown color. Bring the water almost to a boil, add a quarter cup of salt and stir to dissolve it, drop the tied shirt in, and simmer for half an hour or longer. Allow the shirt to cool gradually in the water, then rinse it out thoroughly with cool water. (Don’t reuse dyepots for food, because the dye is not safe to eat.)
It is much better to get a good tie-dye kit. Any crafts store will have these. Avoid the Rit tie-dye kit, because it’s the same kind of hot water dye that’s in the Magic Tie Dye Strings. Look for a kit made by Jacquard Products, or the Funky Groovy Tie-Dye Kit, or a kit made by Rainbow Rock, Tulip, Dylon, or Dritz. These kits all contain fiber reactive dye and are much easier to use because they can be used in cool water and don’t require you to ruin a cooking pot. Just follow the instructions. For the Jacquard kits, you mix soda ash with water in a bucket, soak your shirts in it, wring them out, then add water to the dye bottles and squirt it on. Wait overnight and wash the dye out the next day. The other kits have the soda ash already mixed in with the dye, so it’s even easier, just one step. These dyes are good so you can wash the results in hot water, and they will not fade.