Features:

  • Kit includes enough tie-dye supplies for 4 people
  • Features 12 easy-squeeze bottles of highly-concentrated nontoxic One-Step dyes in popular colors – just add water to activate
  • No need to presoak fabrics in soda ash before dyeing
  • Includes step-by-step technique guide featuring over 8 tie-dye looks to choose from
  • Dyes are safe to machine wash – colors stay bright and bold through repeated washings
  • Use with 100% natural fiber fabrics like cotton, rayon and wool for best results
  • Perfect for small parties, family fun and other group activities
  • Find cool techniques and inspiration at tiedyeyoursummer.com
Good price for what you get

Good price for what you get. There are plenty of rubber bands. Each bottle really dyes a lot of pieces. Plenty to go around if doing multiples. We didn't mix the bottle with water until someone wanted to use that particular color. We have bottles that weren't used and saving for next time. When putting the dye on, sometimes less is more, as the saying goes. If you put a lot of dye, like some of ours were done, you still have tye dye, but the colors reach one another and there isn't any white left on the garment.

Great vibrant colors!

I bought this kit to tie dye onesies that my eldest daughter used (and stained) for upcycled onesies for my son. I just did a few to start and can’t wait to do more! I did 14 or so onesies with just three bottles of dye. Still have some left in those bottles and plenty more can be done with the other colors I haven’t used yet. Make sure to wet all your clothes you plan to dye before twisting them up to ensure that you don’t waste any of the color and get the most vibrant results. Also, let them set in the ziplock bags for at least 24 hours.

Worked Perfectly

These colors were just perfect for the projects we did. They covered at least 10 shirts, maybe even more. (We dyed a lot but had another small dye kit, as well) I especially liked the turquoise and violet colors, that don't come in some other kits. We were also able to use just the powder on a few shirts to do an ice dye technique.

So much better then the tye die I remember!

I haven't done tie dye since camp in the 90s. This kit is heads and shoulders above the "dunking in buckets of Rit dye" method that I was familiar with. The colors are VERY vibrant, and 2-3 washes later have not faded. There is no soaking before or after, and the squirt bottles made it an easy process for my 4 year old (whose shirts turned out really well!) We washed all the shirts before dying and left them damp. Prepped with rubber bands, dyed, put in grocery bags and left them outside for about 5-6 hours, during which time it rained rather heavily. Rinsed in the sink, then washed and dried them all together. We dyed: 6 adult medium Ts, one adult medium long sleeve shirt, 5 boys small tees, 5-6 4T tank tops/tees, one 4T sundress, one 4T pair of pants. (We dyed all our light-colored, permanently stained cotton clothing.) We used up most of the dye. Even the brown, which looked a lot cooler then I thought it would. Tips: If you can, dye outside. We did it over gravel, which was perfect. The kit includes a bunch of rubber bands, but we did need extra. When shaking the dye/water in the bottle to mix it, a couple of ours did leak a few drops, but it wiped easily off our wood floor with no staining. Not sure it would come off stone/tile/vinyl as easily. There are a bunch of cheap plastic gloves included--they fit me great, tore on my husband, and were obviously huge on the 4 year old.

Wonderful starter Kit, Patience is key!

Buying this kit was a "no-brainer" as I was searching for a simple kit with many color options, and pretty cost effective. I'll add some tips that will help your colors pop, and stay sharp wash after wash. Get yourself some organic urea nitrogen, and soda ash for dye. Both can be found here on Amazon under the "Jacquard" brand. Dick Blick has both of these items for considerably less cost, but I wanted everything to arrive at once so I ordered everything from Amazon! Step 1: Add two cups of the soda ash to two gallons of warm water, and dissolve. Be careful with this step as the fumes can be quite caustic. WEAR GLOVES. The soda ash will severely dry out your hands, and its just an unpleasant experience. Add items you wish to Tie dye to the water, and soda ash mixture, let sit for around an hour, be sure that items are thoroughly "soaked." Step 2: since the dye is in 12, 4 ounce bottles, add only one half tablespoon of the urea organic nitrogen to the dye powder before filling with warm water, and shaking! Shake it up!! Shake it real good, y'all! Now, your dye bottles are filled, your items are soaked, and your knees are shaking because you are ready to dye! Wring out all excess water from your items, and choose your design. This kit has a paper showing different designs, but YouTube is a great place to look up ideas! Now, if you wear any size shirt greater than a Men's large, I recommend doing the "sunburst" design, as it takes considerably less dye to cover, and saturate. Smaller items will look much better tie dyed, such as socks and underwear. As you can see in my photos. Finally, you've dyed all the things! Use plastic bags or saran wrap to wrap them each individually, never place two dyed items together or the colors will bleed into one another. This kits specifies to wrap for 8 hours, but I waited around 18 hours before unwrapping. Rinse excess dye out with COLD water, and wash on delicate, with cold water! Dry however you wish! I hung mine up to dry.

The dye was very simple to prepare and even grown adult men enjoyed it. Had just enough dye to tie-dyed 15 ...

Bought this for a coworker's office baby shower. The dye was very simple to prepare and even grown adult men enjoyed it. Had just enough dye to tie-dyed 15 onsies.

Perfect all-in-one kit - recommend buying own gloves though

This package was great. I bought a bus tub (like in restaurants) and a strainer (for cooling pizza) at my local restaurant supply store because I wanted a safe container to use to dye in and the diameters were perfect. I only ended up using 8/12 colors to die three 4x Hanes v-neck t-shirts to wear for sleeping. There was plenty of dye even when I only used two bottles per shirt although if it were double, I would have had more vivid colors. I *do* like how the colors came out. I didn't try any of the methods in the kit on techniques but did research looking for examples of what I wanted to beforehand. The plastic tarp sheeting was the perfect size for the space I had (I did this indoors in my laundry room) and I just needed to wrap everything up and toss it in the trash when I was through. Cleanup was a breeze, the dye didn't get on my skin although I used professional latex gloves that I already owned. (I never use the gloves that come with hair dye either.) The only pain about the whole process was the actual rinsing of the t-shirts. I probably had to rinse about a dozen times in cold, another dozen in warm and then perhaps half a dozen in hot to get to a light murky color. I didn't expend more energy to get clear water. The colors have stayed true and I have washed the shirts several times on their own in warm water and with a set of blacks because my fabric softener wasn't getting the t-shirts soft enough.

This was a pretty large sized kit

This was a pretty large sized kit. I got plenty of rubber bands and the big plastic sheet was very helpful. No soda ash was included, so you would need to buy that separately. Each bottle of dye should be mixed with cold water for bright, vibrant colors and hot water for more pastel and muted colors. Each bottle would dye up to 2 medium sized adult t-shirts if you saturated the shirts very well. If you were going for shirts with more white it may do 4 shirts. I would say if you were going to use every color in this set evenly, you could get about 20 well dyed adult medium t-shirts. That said, I did not use every color because I didn't like every color. But this was an excellent started set because of the cost of the bottles and rubber bands.

Everything you could want for several articles of clothing.

There are a lot of colors in here that gave us some great options for making shirts. We had great luck mixing them together to make muted, secondary colors which are not usually seen on tie dye clothing. The kit recommends using the dye within 40 minutes of mixing, but we found the mixed dye viable even after a month.

Tulip dyes work well without having to do a prior ...

Tulip dyes work well without having to do a prior soda ash soak. One hint though....this same kit is about the same price at Michael's crafts. Find yourself one of their 40% off coupons if there is a Michael's close enough.

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