Discovering Tie-Dye - An Adventure

How often, after a relaxing and lazy weekend, do youbut 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 valuablethe DO something.
commodity. I often enjoy a weekend with not manyI found out that I needed some more supplies and I had
things to do, no pressing task to accomplish, but just toto go out and get rubber bands, spring and other little
lean back, maybe watch some TV re-runs and hangthings like cloth-pins etc. But back at my place I went
out with friends. I really do, but once in a while I getto work and learned about the horizontal and vertical
bitten by the activity bug and then I have to get outpleats 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 thiswell 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 someIn the Wikipedia article about tie-dye I had found one
friends to hang out with and going into my closet tovery interesting method to tie-dye, called mudmee
find some shirt to wear. But instead I came away fromtie-dye and after checking out the site that offers
the closet with an old tie-dye shirt. I don't know why itclothing made in this fashion I even attempted to
happened at this time (because I had seen that shirtcreate these type of patterns.
hanging there many times), but it reminded me that ITime 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 andend and I have to be energized for work tomorrow,
one of those books I now found pretty quickly as mybut I still wanted to get this article here written, mostly
apartment is not too big, and I dug in. The first part Ito remind myself and hopefully somebody else as well,
only skimmed. It had lots of information about thethat a lazy Sunday can be so much better if you are
history of dyeing in general and of tie-dye in particular,not lazy.