How to tie dye your exercise clothing
A lot of people like to tie dye their exercise clothing and there are so many different ways you can do it. The first thing you'll need is a t-shirt or something athletic, like sweatpants or leggings. You want something you feel comfortable in and you want to wear to the gym. You'll also need a few different colors of shirt dye and shirt rubber bands. Also, be sure you have all the supplies needed for your washer and find a comfortable and well lit space that is out of the way from pets, children and so on.
Put your dye in a cup and wait for it to dissolve. Put your clothes in the prewash or rinse cycles to get the tight, new clothing feeling out of them. The be sure to turn them inside out before you put them in the washer because once they're done, they'll be backwards. Fill up the washer with water and add the clothes, then the dye, skipping detergent if you're dyeing something other than a t-shirt. Put the rubber bands on each side of the neck of the shirt.
Squeeze them together to create the look you want. This can be the whole shirt, just a colored stripe across the chest, or anything else. Once you have your look in mind, submerge the garment in the dye bath. There are many ways to tell how long it'll take for the dye to turn your garment a deep color. If you don't want to mess up the inside, you'll tie them up with rubber bands and submerge them.
They should be about as deep as you want them for about 20 minutes. You must do this when you first dye them so that the inside does not look light when it's finished. Wait for about 30 minutes for the rubber bands to release on their own so the items will be less tight. Rather than soaking the fabric, let the rubber bands release then pull out the shirt. Take them out and rinse with cold water. Lay them out to dry and they should be finished.
There are many ways to tie dye your exercise clothes and there are so many different ideas as to what to cover each part in.
The first thing you'll need is some basic athletic attire, like t-shirts or leggings. You want something you'll wear when you hit the gym so that it feels comfortable.
Next, grab some lunch packs, including primary colors like red, green, blue and yellow.
Sew together the ends of some rubber bands so they keep hold of fabric better and these might not be likely to break once they're teaching on your clothes but not fully stretched out.
The dye will hold its color better in cold water, so fill up the prewash or rinse cycles to get everything out of the clothing that could get it to lose its tight feeling. Don't add detergent as it might kill the dyeing process altogether. Now, tie dye away! It's all up to you how you want to do it.
You could do it in a straight line going down your shirt, just one stripe down your chest or pretty much anything else. Once you think you're done, submerge the garment in the dye bath for a couple minutes. If you want it more lightly saturated, wrap it tight in more rubber bands first.
When they're nice and deep in coloration, let them sit for about 20 minutes. There are many ways to tell if it's time to pull them out as well. If you want to be sure, there's a green line you can use which will tell you when the dyes have stopped working and they're not just sitting at the top anymore. Have the shirts rinse and dry after they are all done, turning them rightside-out before putting them in and removing before rinsing because they'll already be backwards-facing after they're done!