Message: quick question:
i'm with an outdoor community summer theatre and we were thinking of doing tie dye t-shirts...we're all new at this so i just had 2 questions
1)we would like to print our shows on the back of the tshirt...woudl you recommend we do this before or after we do the tie dye adn is there any fabric that wont take to the printing?
2) our logo is a cresent moon and we thought it would be fun to have that on the front...is there any way to do this? i noticed that most of the "patterns" were symetrical width wise, though this would be symmetrical length wise
as you can see i'm absolutly brand new to this whole thing, but we all love tie dyes and it fits with out theatre so well that we really wanted to do this is we could
thanks so much!!!!!

1. You can tie-dye screen-printed t-shirts, and you can screen-print dyed t-shirts if they've been washed thoroughly to remove all excess unattached dye, using first cold and then hot water. It doesn't really matter which order you do this in.

2. You can tie a moon shape by drawing the shape of a fat crescent moon with a pencil, then gathering along the pencil line to tie it, using artificial sinew. This may take quite a bit of experimenting. See, for example, the "our tie-dye process page" at The Kind Dyes. It may help to try stitching along the outline with a long basting stitchm, gathering it up by pulling the threads, then (important!) fastening a rubber band very tightly over the threads. Alternatively, you could try stamping on a logo in opaque fabric paint, perhaps in black if that is the color of the screen printing on the back of the shirts. You can buy good fabric paint from dye suppliers such as ProChem and Dharma Trading Company.