Midnight-Weekend Project is a new series i am starting on Ma Niche. I'll be sharing here with you some easy and fun projects that you can work on as a family... I call it Midnight-Weekend Projects because that is when husband and I feel enthusiastic enough to work on such projects. if you have a toddler in the house you probably know why weekend midnights are best suited for such projects :-)
the first one up in the series is the bleached tees that we made for us for the 4th of July ! I know we celebrated 4th of July a few weeks back but I figured that I'll probably never get around sharing our bleached tees with you unless i do it today... so here it is for you... the bleached "star" tees that we made for the 4th of July.
i spotted the bleached-tee-tutorial at Naptime-Creations a while ago. and immediately afterwards tried to make a batman t-shirt for my superhero crazy husband. my first attempt did not work.
and only now i realized that I had not followed the instructions properly. I had used a plastic board instead of a wooden one and that might have been the real problem. anyway in our second attempt we got around our problem by using paper towel between the t-shirt and the board and finally managed to bleach our 4th of July tees just in time !!
and only now i realized that I had not followed the instructions properly. I had used a plastic board instead of a wooden one and that might have been the real problem. anyway in our second attempt we got around our problem by using paper towel between the t-shirt and the board and finally managed to bleach our 4th of July tees just in time !!
DIY : Bleached Tees !
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materials needed
t-shirt
felt cloth
Clorox bleach
spraying bottle
paper towel
board for supporting the t-shirt
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how to bleach tees
fill the spray bottle with 70 % bleach and 30 % water. cut out the design that you want on the felt cloth...
now spray away. 
when the bleaching looks done that is the uncovered portions look bleached enough remove the t-shirt from the board. holding it under a running tap wash the bleach thoroughly. then hang it and let it dry. the more meticulous ones might want to machine wash the t-shirts but we did not do that. as a consequence the colors looked a little more faded after the t-shirts dried.
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this is how we made our tees... note that same colored t-shirts might bleach differently. as you can see our son's Navy blue t-shirt bleached to reveal pinkish stars while ours (as you can see above) bleached to reveal orange-ish ones.
we got his t-shirt from Old navy and ours from Michaels and as you can clearly see there is a distinct difference in the dyes used. so bleach and wait to be surprised !
we got his t-shirt from Old navy and ours from Michaels and as you can clearly see there is a distinct difference in the dyes used. so bleach and wait to be surprised !
This is one of the easy and fun projects that husband and I did after our little one packed off for the night. I apologize for the poor picture quality. but that is the best I could capture under the challenging light conditions. hope you understand.
Good Night ! have a fun weekend !
p.s : more pictures of us in our tees here.
