Tie Dye Is Alive and Well

I have a battle with my laundry every day. If it isn't stinky towels from the new front loader, it's the myriad of stains that I forget to treat. And then there's the problem of kids who choose to use their shirt as a napkin. Before you know it, it looks like I don't even do laundry!

In addition to my laundry woes, I have T-shirts and sweatshirts that accumulate in closets and on the backs of doors (and sometimes on the floor.) My 15-year-old daughter recently discovered a nice white sweatshirt on the back of her sister's door. Her sister no longer wanted it so she claimed it as her own. However, it had a few obvious stains on the front.

We headed to and selected a Tulip One-Step Tie Dye bottle in pink. My daughter did the entire process herself.

She started by scrunching the sweatshirt, wrapping in rubber bands and applying the dye. She placed it in a plastic bag and we placed the bag in a mixing bowl over night. The next day we rinsed the sweatshirt until it ran clear and then ran it through a cycle of the washing machine. 

The result? A reinvented sweatshirt with no visible stains!