Alternatively you could save your fasteners for later use by untying your string or unwrap the rubber bands.
Tie dye rubber band instructions.
Add rubber bands and follow the tie dye pattern of your choice.
Accordion fold the fabric from the bottom up.
Pick the shirt up form the middle 2.
Next eyeball your shirt and decide where to separate your shirt into thirds putting rubber bands in place to separate the thirds.
You should cut carefully to avoid damaging your newly tie dyed fabric.
Space the rubber bands as far as you like from each other i prefer inches apart 3 now you are ready to dye.
Fold the shirt from the bottom up into small pleats until the shirt in the shape of a long thin log.
Striped pattern lay the fabric flat and fold it back and forth pleat until all the fabric is folded.
When you put the rubber band around it don t loop it twice just put it on.
Tie dye doesn t always mean groovy spirals and circles.
We also attempted the tie dyeing with rit dye.
Take several rubber bands and tie into quadrants.
Stripes tie dye technique lay the fabric flat.
After that you can unravel the fabric to reveal the pattern.
3 rubber bands are perfect for this making 6 sections.
Use a pair of scissors to carefully cut the string or rubber bands from the fabric.
Make it wet and then wring out excess water so the dye soaks in better.
Wrap it in saran wrap and let it sit.
Apply rubber bands to keep the fabric together apply dye color to each side of the rubber bands.
Don your rubber gloves choose your dye and saturate each quadrant.
Secure with rubber bands.
If you re going with the typical color scheme soak the top third of your shirt in red dye and the bottom third in a blue dye.
Rinse the shirt until the water runs clear.
You can make straight line stripes too.
Another thing we have done is do the shirt in certain sport teams colors and then i added heat transfer vinyl to it like this denver broncos tie dye shirt.
Take your rubber bands and place them evenly across the pleated shirt log using about five to eight bands.
Leave the middle white.