Brand new mama to tie-dye and to this forum!

[Rebekah]

Hey there, everyone!  I'm so happy to have found this forum.  I'm a stay-at-home mom, trying to earn a little extra money by selling dyed tshirts and dyed cloth diapers.  I'm having a lot of fun learning the art.  I'm VERY new to the process; just started about 2 months ago.  I've made a lot of improvements, but have a looooong way to go and about 1,437 questions tumbling around in my brain!  I can already tell by reading around in here that I've found the perfect place to learn!  Looking forward to getting to know all of you... 

Here's a shirt n' diaper from my very first dyeing session:


Here's a few recent diapers:
Spiral flat diaper

LWI prefold diapers

[deb]

Hi and welcome! I'm doing the SAHM thing as well.

Staill haven't figured out how to get a nice pattern on the thick parts of the diaper cloths, but haven't given up yet either. 

[Rebekah]

Hi Deb!  Always fun to find another SAHM!  I've had trouble with swirlies on the prefold diapers too.  This is the closest I've gotten so far:

[deb]

You're ahead of me! I can do stripes OK but DANG, that absorbent part in the middle just SUCKS up the dye!!! Also really messes with my rubber bands.

I did manage a heart, but it only came out nice on one side. I had to salvage that with fabric paint to make the outline look like "I meant to do that," but I may paint the rest with a paintbrush to make it look more evenly saturated with the dye - see my post about that on your other thread.

[Releaf]

Welcome, Rebekah!  You've come to the right place.