| How often, after a relaxing and lazy weekend, do you | | | | but with much of this I was very familiar so I did not |
| have the feeling, that you wasted something valuable? | | | | spend much time with it. My urge now was to get to |
| From my own experience time is a very valuable | | | | the DO something. |
| commodity. I often enjoy a weekend with not many | | | | I found out that I needed some more supplies and I had |
| things to do, no pressing task to accomplish, but just to | | | | to go out and get rubber bands, spring and other little |
| lean back, maybe watch some TV re-runs and hang | | | | things like cloth-pins etc. But back at my place I went |
| out with friends. I really do, but once in a while I get | | | | to work and learned about the horizontal and vertical |
| bitten by the activity bug and then I have to get out | | | | pleats that will create stripes when dyed, I learned |
| and get something done. | | | | about the techniques to make circular patterns and the |
| That so happened to me this weekend, and writing this | | | | well known spiral. This was the pattern I needed the |
| article is the end of a very busy and productive day. | | | | cloth-pin for. |
| It all started out with my decision to go see some | | | | In the Wikipedia article about tie-dye I had found one |
| friends to hang out with and going into my closet to | | | | very interesting method to tie-dye, called mudmee |
| find some shirt to wear. But instead I came away from | | | | tie-dye and after checking out the site that offers |
| the closet with an old tie-dye shirt. I don't know why it | | | | clothing made in this fashion I even attempted to |
| happened at this time (because I had seen that shirt | | | | create these type of patterns. |
| hanging there many times), but it reminded me that I | | | | Time will show because I had to stop myself in my |
| always wanted to do some tie-dyeing myself. | | | | spurt of activity because the weekend is coming to an |
| I had actually bought some books a while back and | | | | end and I have to be energized for work tomorrow, |
| one of those books I now found pretty quickly as my | | | | but I still wanted to get this article here written, mostly |
| apartment is not too big, and I dug in. The first part I | | | | to remind myself and hopefully somebody else as well, |
| only skimmed. It had lots of information about the | | | | that a lazy Sunday can be so much better if you are |
| history of dyeing in general and of tie-dye in particular, | | | | not lazy. |