circle fold

Hi! I have another project & am again asking for your help. The "circle" is what we'd like to do for an upcoming spring break trip. Is it done the same as "bullseye" or is it similar to the vfold, only half a circle? Thanks so much! :)

Examples of 2 kinds of tie dye circles

I think Paula answered your question, but here are 2 more examples. The moon tee on top was done by drawing a half-circle and pleating, as Paula described, the "bullseye" swimsuits done by bunching around a stick (handle of a wooden spoon) and rubber-banding at intervals, if done in the center of the garment and banded once would make a circle.


(Paula, what size do you like pictures to be in the forum? These are smaller than I like but I think I often post them too large)
Jen

good picture sizes

The pictures should be narrow enough not to alter the layout of the page, but big enough to see clearly. For a first post in a thread, 450 pixels wide is certainly small enough. For replies, sometimes a smaller width appears to be necessary, but it never has to be smaller than 300 pixels wide, I think.

I can always come in later and edit the image display to be smaller, if necessary, as I sometimes do. It's not difficult for me to do.

tie-dyeing a circle

Can you find a picture online somewhere to show us? Otherwise it's impossible to know exactly what you mean. (Also, do you have a picture of several members of the team you were dyeing for earlier, wearing their shirts?)

A fold I like to do is to draw an outline of an actual circle, using a dinner plate as my stencil. I fold the shirt in half first, and make an effort to get the plate centered so that the result is really a circle, not an oblong. Then I finger-pleat up along the line, with small, neat pleats, tie in a few places, and apply different colors to the front and the back to get interleaving colors when the shirt is unfolded. It's similar to the bull's eye fold, but I get better detail. It's done like the folded version (not stitched) of the heart design. Sometimes I do this but dye the center circle with highly dilute pale dye, mostly water, to leave a light section for ironing on a picture or statement. Iron-ons work best with tie-dye when they are printed in only blacks and greys, not colors, with clear instead of white for the background (i.e., non-opaque iron-ons).

Here are two shirts I dyed using this technique. The first has the face of a friend on it, and the second one is the rose window example that I posted here before:
John Schroeter Memorial shirt
rose window t-shirt

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