Ds2 (13) has done tie dye before at camp and when he couldn't find a duvet cover he liked became very keen on the idea of tie dying one. He got several packs of Dylan hand dye as a present and we bought a plain white cotton duvet cover.
Here's where the problem starts. My only experience of tie dye is the one colour variety, you use elastic bands, twine and stones to bland out parts of a garment and then totally submerged in dye and these parts remain white-ish. He was talking about something different. He had tied up the T-shirt and used squirty bottles to dye different parts different colours then unravelled it all.
The problem is the dye we have expects total immersion for 45mins, then you rinse and wash. I don't know how it works when the fabric is just saturated, left and then rinsed and washed- how long to keep it before rinsing?
We tied the cover up in such a way that it should produce a spiral effect and then used bottles of the dye to soak different segments. We went over and over these segments until they would absorb no more. We have now left it to soak in.
Does anyone have any idea how long we should leave it before rinsing? Presumably we can't over soak it - I can't see what would go wrong. How long sitting saturated like this would equate to 45 mins full immersion? 3.5 hours so far and I am getting impatient!