Tye Dying

   Eight years ago Mommy and the other homeschool mothers at our church started a club for homeschool girls, called, "Keepers At Home".  Every second and fourth Thursday throughout September to May we meet at a members home and are taught a skill that the mother of that member has chosen to teach.  This past Thursday was our first meeting for this year.  We were taught at Sis. Annette's home on how to do tye-dying.  We watched a few helpful video clips on how to do the different designs and then we began.
   Our shirts had been soaking for the last 20 minutes in soda ash water, this helps the shirt colors to remain bright. We wrung out our shirts so they were only a little damp and then we began to choose our designs.  I chose a pattern called "Sunbursts", everyone else in my family chose the "Spiral".

Wringing out the shirts

Joy and Lillia

Deciding what designs to do...

After we got home we had to let the shirts sit for 6 hrs.

On Friday morning we cut the rubber bands and...wala! a tye-dyed shirt!

We had to let them hang for another day, so all the extra dye could dry.

Elainah

Lillia, Joy, Elainah, David, Hope, and I

Sweet Joy!

  Hope & David

 On Saturday evening we all donned our tye-dye shirts
and went on our seven mile loop.

 Hope

 Lillia and Hope chugging up a hill...

 Daddy and Hope

 Mommy

Joshua pulling David