Making your old stained white shirt KICK ASS

I have a drawer full of once white shirts that I have kept for over the years. Most of them are now discolored or stained. They are most still in good condition and don't have the heart to throw them away, but also won't wear them in public because of the stains. In the spirit of up cycling, I have dyed a few and now wear them all the time again. I'm sure there is a millions ways of dying fabric, but this is what I did. 

Materials:



 Old white shirts and Dylon Fabric Dye and Liquid Rit Fabric Dye and plastic container

 I put the shirts under the sink and got them wet. Wring out the shirt because you don't want water and dye dripping every where.

Lay the we shirt on top of a town and sprinkle some of the Dylon Fabric Dye powder dye where ever you see fit.The top blue color ocean blue and the lower part of the shirt has pine cone brown sprinkled on it.

This shirt I just sprinkled on ocean blue Dylon Fabric Dye

I let those sit like that for about 10 minutes and then moved to the Rit Liquid Fabric Dye

Just to be up front, I didn't follow the mixing directions for the liquid dye. I put a couple of cups of hot water, couple pinches or salt, and about a 3rd cup of dye.

After putting the shirts in the liquid dye, I actually poured straight  Rit Dye in a few places to make a stronger color come out.

Threw the whole container, dye, shirt and all in the micro wave and cooked them for 2  minutes.

After I microwaved them, I pull them out and let them sit for an hour or two then take the shirts out and try to rinse out the the dye that isn't stuck to the fabric fiber.

At this point, I put them in the washing machine with laundry detergent, wash and dry, then wear.





I have used this same method to dye muslin in the past for quilting and other projects and it works amazing. Here are some pictures of my Muslin dye projects.