What Can I Say?

What can I say, I love to craft. And I've been told that I am pretty good at it. I just see the ones that I messed up on, but I show everyone else the good ones. Haha, have them fooled.

Anyway, we needed to make new t-shirts for the YW sports. Well, I don't know if needed to is the right word, but we decided to. And the YW wanted to bleach them. I hadn't ever done this so I read up on it on the internet and Sarah and Chloe consented to be the guinea pigs.

They picked out some super cute designs:

I cut them using my favorite machine out of freezer paper so we just ironed them on.

We made sure our outfits were ones that we didn't mind getting a little bleach on and we went outside to bleach the tees!

It had said online that some colors need about 20 minutes to start showing the bleaching affect. So, I wasn't worried when they just looked wet at first.

Then we went and made some headbands with old t-shirts...

Then we checked again and they still just looked wet.

Then Chloe made a bag out of an old t-shirt...

(Can you tell that we had just gone through Brent's t-shirt drawer and pulled out all the holey ones?)

And they still were quite yellow shirts, just wet. Sadly, the bleached tees didn't work AT ALL. Why is this? I don't really know. The t-shirts are a little bit lighter on the front than the back, but not even that noticeably.

I was so glad I tried this BEFORE wasting 15 t-shirts for the YW.

It was a sad fail, but the YW t-shirts did turn out quite nice. We just painted them. I found this great soft fabric paint.

But the bleaching would have been so cool. Oh well. Maybe next time.