Tie Dye Goddess Shirt

I really enjoyed making this craft for you all. I have the step-by-step instructions for you. I hope you like it too. I had a white shirt that had a couple of marks on it so I decided to make it pretty. I decided to go with a sunburst tie-dye.

I soaked the shirt in soda ash solution for 20 minutes. I wrung it out and let it air dry for a couple of hours while I worked on another craft. It was only a bit damp when I prepared it for the dyes.

To make a sunburst design, pull up from the center of the front of the shirt only. At the base put a rubber band.

Shirt center pulled up and secured with a rubber band at the base

Go up 1½ inches from that and place another rubber band.

Second rubber band placed 1.5 inches above the first

It will look like this after it is banded.

Shirt fully banded and ready for dye — two rubber bands creating the sunburst sections

The colors that I have chosen: turquoise, yellow, and orange.

Three dye bottles — turquoise, yellow, and orange — ready to use

For the first section, which will be the center of my sun, I used yellow. The middle section, which is the outer ring of the sun, I used orange. The rest of the shirt, I used turquoise.

Dye applied to the banded shirt — yellow center, orange ring, turquoise outer shirt

After you are finished adding your dye, wrap the shirt in plastic wrap and leave it for 6–8 hours.

Dyed shirt wrapped tightly in plastic wrap to set

I left my shirt for 6 hours. Here it is after I washed and dried it in the dryer. My sunburst turned out great!

Finished sunburst tie-dye shirt after washing and drying — vibrant yellow, orange, and turquoise

Now, I'm going to put my goddess design on the front of the shirt. I don't want it to bleed through so I put my drying rack inside the shirt and some folded plastic.

Drying rack and plastic placed inside the shirt to prevent paint bleed-through

I cut out this goddess pattern in cardstock and centered it on my sunburst. Here's the pattern — I printed it full size on a sheet of cardstock and cut it out.

Goddess silhouette pattern printed on cardstock

Cardstock goddess pattern cut out and centered on the sunburst shirt

For this I am using Tulip puffy paint. I went around the outside of the pattern in dots. Continue this all around the goddess.

White puffy paint dots applied around the outside edge of the goddess pattern

Now, just go around adding varying sizes of dots going outward from the goddess. Place them where you like. Let them begin to "set". After about 15 minutes you can slowly pull the paper goddess off.

Varying sizes of white puffy paint dots radiating outward from the goddess shape

I wanted to give it a bit of vine color so I took the green puffy paint and placed random vine designs around the goddess.

Green puffy paint vine designs added around the goddess

Here it is with the paper goddess pattern removed and the vines added. The dots are still NOT dry — so please be careful with those. It will take a while for them to dry.

Goddess pattern removed revealing the dot outline with green vines — dots still wet

Now I have decided that I want a spiral inside my goddess, so I used blue puffy paint for that.

Blue puffy paint spiral dots added inside the goddess silhouette

Leave overnight to dry. If you have cats, I suggest that you put it somewhere that they can't cuddle up on your shirt.

Shirt laid flat overnight to dry completely — cat warning noted!

Here I am wearing my finished product!

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