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Quarantine Tie Dye

I was not aware of just how POPULAR tie dying has become during quarantine! I have several times in the past tie dyed clothes to see if I could do something fun with a shirt that had become a dingy white or a piece of clothing I was no longer wearing because I was bored with it. In the past, this has been a pretty haphazard process with whatever Rit Dye I had around the house (I like dying clothes, so I often have a lot lying around).  I've never gone to summer camp or attended any sweet teenage sleepover tie dye parties (that a thing, I'm sure of it), so mostly I historically bunched up articles of clothing put rubber bands on them and dumped them into a single dye color. Results have greatly varied. However, this time I really wanted to do it right! Daycare stained the tie dye shirt they made with my son last year, one of his favorites, and I wanted to make him a new one with lots of vibrant colors. So I bought a kit online by Tulip for about $20. I recently have seen that