This sweet lady Pascale Dubois (we are still friends today!) was like, I have to have a pair, would you like to trade? I looked at her business Pixies Pebbles and her jewelry, and I also like oh my gosh, they’re so beautiful. It was my first trade! I made a few reverse leggings six years ago. What has been one of your favorite trades you have done in your group? There are groups for different dyeing methods like a reverse dyeing group, hot water, liquid, and ice dyeing. There’s another group for just selling your supplies. (From left to right: Jaime Lemming, Bri Klein, Landon Bennett, Kelton, George Zeller, Louisa Daniel, Mark Czerniejewski, Kurt Wallace)ĭo people buy, sell, and trade tie-dye in your community? Even dogs love tie-dye! Members of the Tie-Dyeing community met up at an aircraft hangar in Carmi, Illinois, for a dye session where one dyer’s wife flys planes out of. We donate items, do raffles, so we can raise money and give back to each other.Įverybody is willing to pitch in like if somebody says, oh my gosh, what color can I use to make a Baltimore Ravens team shirt, and then you’ll have like hundreds, literally hundreds of people saying what it is and they’ll show pictures of their examples. We also have times when we support one another outside of tie-dye, say when someone’s refrigerator is broken. I have made so many friends in the tie-dye communities and we really do rally around one another. I belong to several types of groups and we really are a close community. What are the tie-dye online communities like? And because of that, it transcends time for sure. It represents love instead of war and it brings good vibes and positive feelings when everything can feel so down with COVID. There’s also so much good history with tie-dye. Because no matter what you think you’ve got. When it is time to rinse and untie it’s like opening up a Christmas present. I want to make sure you get that happy feeling.įor the dyer, it also makes you so happy. If you don’t like the outcome of a piece I made, you cannot be sad, so we’ll make you another. I think that tie-dye holds a lot of memories for people. Why do you think so many people are into the art form? So just looking at all of that and then playing with different ideas was really the best teacher. I really had to pay attention to what people were saying. So a lot of it was files and really reading people’s comments because even though you’re looking at instructions there are so many things that can go into it and that can change your results. The other administrators really keep the wheels greased and they have a wealth of knowledge that they’re willing to share. In our Facebook group, we have a lot of helpful files. Patsy hangs out with her tie-dye designs (that “sold like hotcakes”!) at Greencastle American Legion Picnic Grounds in June this year.ĭid you teach yourself tie-dye? How did you learn your dyeing techniques? It’s not really about following trends but making it my own and I enjoy that. It mixes my love of fashion and creativity. I started getting really into making yoga pants and so many of my friends loved them and said I should sell them. I’m gonna just make my own so I started playing with tie-dye and it was a lot of fun. I bought them and I bought my friend the pair and I was like, this is ridiculous. The price doubled when I went to get another pair. I had bought a couple of pairs through a friend of mine who was selling them for somebody else. But I considered myself a hippie back in the day so when I started to go back into the music festival scene when my kids got a little bit bigger and we could take them camping, I loved the tie-dye yoga pants I was seeing. I am a homemaker and a mom and do all the great things that go along with that-from the after-school activities to the flurry of playing outside with my kids. How did tie-dye become a large part of your life?
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