Tie Dyed PEACE Dress to Salsa music

This is a dress that I have been making for children. I have this listed in my Etsy store etsy item link. The dress is tie dyed and then I make a block printed patch on tie dyed fabric and sew to the dress and add trim.

Watch the movie first (Step 1) then you can go through the detailed instructions.

Here are the steps:

1. Buy the blanks
2. Prepare blanks for dying
3. Dye
4. Prepare dress for printing
5. Prepare fabric patch for printing
6. Design and carve block print
7. Ink the block
8. Print the patch
9. Heat set patch
10. Sew onto dress
11. Trim dress
12. FINISHED

And here is a list of supplies (can be purchase from Dharma Trading Co. and PRO Chemical):

TIE DYE
1. Some item to dye, t-shirt, etc. (fabric should be cotton, rayons, linens, or hemp)
2. Procion dye
3. Soda Ash (or other dye fixative)
4. Salt
5. Water
6. Some buckets
7. Rubber Bands
8. Synthrapol detergent (very concentrated pre- and after wash detergent for dying)

PATCH
1. Cotton fabric
2. Screen printing ink
3. Print supplies: brayer, ink plate, rubber or linoleum block

SEWING
1. Sewing machine
2. Thread
3. Pom pom trim (for this dress)

Step 1 The Movie

This is the video version, enjoy!