Spray Bleach shirt dye

[Moshingyogi]

Sooo, I saw a Craft magazine a few months ago where you make a design on a shirt by selectively bleaching it. You:
Make stencil out of contact paper
stick it to a colored shirt (you bleach white and you get white...)
spray a 50/50 bleach solution over it
let is sit for about 30 seconds
throw it in the wash immediately

and voila!! stencil of something cool on your shirt in splatery fun weird colors.

I made one (maybe post picture later) and I was pretty pleased. I put a pidgeon on it, I hearts the pidgeon. It was a black shirt that turned kind of brown after bleaching.

Any luck with this out there? Any colors that come out really cool? Adding anything else to the bleach?  

[Minathia]

I sprayed part of a pillow case with bleach by accident once a long time ago, then i 'saved' it by spraying it mostly evenly all over. the effect was...strange. but good.  

[Kingyo~goldfish]

WOW.
They put that old trick into a modern craft magazine?
I'm shocked and disappointed.  

[Kingyo~goldfish]

ForestGreen

Kingyo~goldfish

WOW.
They put that old trick into a modern craft magazine?
I'm shocked and disappointed.

All ideas get recycled eventually, some of us remember them from decades ago and others don't. I'm really glad that these ideas keep going around the circle and get popular every so often.

But this never went away.
I mean, people have been doing this since at least the eighties, and people who arent even crafty do it all the time, so its doubly popular. It's a very mainstream thing to do, practically common knowledge.
I think it's a waste of print considering how many millions of people already know how to do it. They could have taken the time to be entrepreneurial at least a LITTLE bit.  

[kochi~mochi]

Kingyo~goldfish

ForestGreen

Kingyo~goldfish

WOW.
They put that old trick into a modern craft magazine?
I'm shocked and disappointed.

All ideas get recycled eventually, some of us remember them from decades ago and others don't. I'm really glad that these ideas keep going around the circle and get popular every so often.

But this never went away.
I mean, people have been doing this since at least the eighties, and people who arent even crafty do it all the time, so its doubly popular. It's a very mainstream thing to do, practically common knowledge.
I think it's a waste of print considering how many millions of people already know how to do it. They could have taken the time to be entrepreneurial at least a LITTLE bit.

I think you're applying things that are common to where you live to things that are universally common. I can honestly say that i've only ever seen one person do that, and she was older and had always been crafting. She was making a quilt and needed different fabric then what she could find. I think its grossly unfair of you to talk like people should have always known about things just because you do.  

[Kingyo~goldfish]

kochi~mochi

Kingyo~goldfish

ForestGreen

Kingyo~goldfish

WOW.
They put that old trick into a modern craft magazine?
I'm shocked and disappointed.

All ideas get recycled eventually, some of us remember them from decades ago and others don't. I'm really glad that these ideas keep going around the circle and get popular every so often.

But this never went away.
I mean, people have been doing this since at least the eighties, and people who arent even crafty do it all the time, so its doubly popular. It's a very mainstream thing to do, practically common knowledge.
I think it's a waste of print considering how many millions of people already know how to do it. They could have taken the time to be entrepreneurial at least a LITTLE bit.

I think you're applying things that are common to where you live to things that are universally common. I can honestly say that i've only ever seen one person do that, and she was older and had always been crafting. She was making a quilt and needed different fabric then what she could find. I think its grossly unfair of you to talk like people should have always known about things just because you do.

That's not even close to what I'm saying. It's not because I happen to know about it it's because nearly every crafter (and plenty of non-crafters) does.
and thanks.
I've lived in Dublin, Antoch, Baumholder, Idar Oberstein, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Lawton, San Fransisco, Kent and Paris.
And I can garentee you I've seen it in all of these places.
All over the world and at all stages of my life, that's gotta be coincidence, right?
All I'm trying to say is that there are specific places for recycled and rehashed craft ideas. They have thousands of their own websites and even magazines. The people who are getting paid to come up with new ideas and revolutionize the industry shouldn't be relying on things like this.  

[Kingyo~goldfish]

YourAzureGoddess

Alot of people nowadays forget about bleach as a crafting supply becayse they are not aware of how fibers and dyes react.

One of the best projects I have seen is a friend bought a cotton hooded sweatershit from a thrift store, and it had very apparent decorative stitching (in the same color as the shirt) at the seams and the edges. The thread was ployester; the shirt was cotton. Cotton takes dye and bleaches, polyester doesn't.

She bleached the shirt and then ran it through the wash with some rit dye in a contrasting color and ended up with a sweet sweatshirt that was one color, while all the stitching stood out (being another color)

As for whether or not it's dissappointing? Well, yes it is a recycyled idea, but not everyone realizes the scope of what they can do with simple household supplies. Think of the magazine like a dialogue or conversation between a group of writers and a crafting community. If you don't like the conversation don't get mad at other people for finding it interesting; just simply don't buy the magazine.

I also think that a lot of crafters have chosen to become more environmentally friendly in the last few years, which has lead to the use of artificial dyes and color strippers to die down.
And I agree about the last bit as well, all though I would like to point out that I certainly never got mad at anyone...
-_-
oh well  

[Castilleja]

I've always seen how-to's on how to do bleach art, but I've hardly ever seen anyone wearing it. *shrugs*

I did a bleach job on an old pair of jeans -- I tied a string around the bottoms of the legs, hung them upside-down in my shower, and dripped bleach onto the hems with a plastic pipette. It came out kind of looking like flames (only white). Now, I just need to patch up a couple holes, and they can finally be wearable again (kind of).  

[JJKo]

I find it helpful that crafts magazines give reminders of easy tricks like this...I'd actually never heard of it before though I have friends who do the same thing with spray paint.

I'd really love to see some pictures of your guys' work with the bleach-spraying, think it would add a lot to the topic...  

[ellayaxP]

that's pretty cool..im going to try that!! lol xp  

[ellayaxP]

plus, i agree with kochi~mochi, no offense kingyo, cuz how do u know that practically everyone knows that trick..i mean i didn't..i just no about it now..  

[Jazminny]

Oh, I know what you're talking about. :]
It's that miniature magazine where some guy shows his design with the stencil monster, right? XD

I was looking at that too.