Crochet Rainbow Top

Add some color to your life with this crochet rainbow top from I Love to Create. A One-Step Dye Kit and a cotton shirt is all you need for this fancy top. Keep it for yourself or give it as a gift. Find this project and many more fabric dye projects in the free eBook for fabric dye inspiration and instruction, Fun with Fabric Dye. 

Materials:

• Tulip® One-Step Tie-Dye Kits™
  • Ultimate Colors
• Tulip® Surface Cover™
• Shirt -100% cotton – with texture, crochet or interesting design at the top
• Cotton swabs

Instructions:

1. Prewash fabric to remove sizing. Do not use fabric softener. Do not dry.
    
2. Cover work surface with Tulip® Surface Cover™. Lay damp shirt on plastic.
    
3. Wearing rubber gloves, add water to all dye bottles to lines indicated. Replace caps tightly and shake until dye is dissolved.
    
4. Dip the tip of a cotton swab into one of the dyes. Touch to center of textured area at top of shirt. Let the dye bleed as far it will go, then add additional dots of dye to cover desired area. Repeat with different colors as desired to dye all of the textured area.
    
5. Squeeze large dots of Turquoise across the body of shirt.
    
6. Pour out Turquoise until 2/3 remains, then fill remaining area in bottle with water and shake to dilute. Squeeze more dots onto shirt.
    
7. Pour out ½ of dye bottle and fill remaining area with more water and shake. Squeeze diluted turquoise onto the remaining white areas of shirt.
    
8. Cover shirt with plastic and let sit 4 to 6 hours. Wash separately in a large load of water with a small amount of laundry soap. Dry according to shirt instructions.