Tie-dye Shirts for the trip!!

I don't think it's a surprise to anyone this time, so I'll go on and show you the tie-dye shirts for the upcoming sailing trip!  If you're inclined, you can see previous tie-dye escapades here - BVI 2008  -  St. Martin 2009 -  Bahamas  2010.  I guess I got lazy in 2012 when we went back to BVI....no shirts that year!

The boat we're chartering is called "Island Girl".....which, if you've been paying attention, is also the name of our own boat!

Remember when we sailed to Ocracoke over Easter, Richard and Miranda gave me the blue shirt printed with "Island Girl"?   Well, Sharon got the great idea to buy  the "Island Girl" shirts  in white - but this time to tie-dye for our charter trip!

4 shirts for the 4 girls.

Supplies ready - shirts freshly washed and soaked with  soda ash.

You know the drill....for a "spiral", just start a twist....

And work it until it's all twisted.

Put on rubber bands to keep it all together and help with your dye "quadrants".

Then simply start squirting copious amounts of dye on the quadrants, one by one.

Blue, pink and purple.....I know, it looks messy.....but the end result will be fun and unique!

All done!

Rinsed once and set out to dry in the sun.

And here's a closeup of the finished shirt - washed and dried several times now.  Will be fun to get a photo of all 4 girls together!