Today was my boys first day back to school. They started on a Friday?!? We lucked out with awesome teachers this year! The boys are always wanting to sew & do crafts with me so we decided to do some bleached shirts. I had them each pick out two plain shirts from their closets. We then googled different silhouette images of things they liked & they each picked out two. I traced the image outlines onto freezer paper.
We decided to do three with soft scrub with bleach & three like these at
under the sycamore. So when I cut out the images I had to keep in mind which way I was doing each image. The soft scrub ones I needed to keep the negative pieces & the spray bleach ones I need to keep the positive pieces. On the Dr. Who space machine (Tartus?) image I put x's on the pieces I needed to iron on so I wouldn't get mixed up.
If you have boys that are into all things strange check out the new
Dr. Who, my boys LOVE IT!
Next iron on all your pieces & keep the shirts flat so the edges of the freezer paper don't peel. For the soft scrub shirts put a piece of cardboard in between the shirt underneath the image. Dab on soft scrub over the image (I just used a paper towel, but you could use a white washcloth). Let sit for 5 minutes then rinse off very well & peel off the freezer paper.
For the other shirts I just used
Ashley Ann's instructions except that I didn't use the cardboard and I used a hanger & hung them by my dead tree (I'm not sure if bleach can harm trees or not). I did one shirt at a time so I could supervise my boys better. The first two the bleach soaked through the freezer paper and so I colored in the edges with colored sharpies.
The last one I had my son spray it first telling him to try to not hit the freezer paper. Then after he was done a lightly misted around the image. That way the bleach didn't have as long to soak through the paper. This shirt turned out perfect. On the spray bleach shirts I only left them in the sun 2-3 minutes before I rinsed them off. I washed all the shirts with the extra rinse cycle right after we were done too.
Today was my boys first day back to school. They started on a Friday?!? We lucked out with awesome teachers this year! The boys are always wanting to sew & do crafts with me so we decided to do some bleached shirts. I had them each pick out two plain shirts from their closets. We then googled different silhouette images of things they liked & they each picked out two. I traced the image outlines onto freezer paper. 
We decided to do three with soft scrub with bleach & three like these at under the sycamore. So when I cut out the images I had to keep in mind which way I was doing each image. The soft scrub ones I needed to keep the negative pieces & the spray bleach ones I need to keep the positive pieces. On the Dr. Who space machine (Tartus?) image I put x's on the pieces I needed to iron on so I wouldn't get mixed up. 
If you have boys that are into all things strange check out the new Dr. Who, my boys LOVE IT! 
Next iron on all your pieces & keep the shirts flat so the edges of the freezer paper don't peel. For the soft scrub shirts put a piece of cardboard in between the shirt underneath the image. Dab on soft scrub over the image (I just used a paper towel, but you could use a white washcloth). Let sit for 5 minutes then rinse off very well & peel off the freezer paper. 
For the other shirts I just used Ashley Ann's instructions except that I didn't use the cardboard and I used a hanger & hung them by my dead tree (I'm not sure if bleach can harm trees or not). I did one shirt at a time so I could supervise my boys better. The first two the bleach soaked through the freezer paper and so I colored in the edges with colored sharpies. 
The last one I had my son spray it first telling him to try to not hit the freezer paper. Then after he was done a lightly misted around the image. That way the bleach didn't have as long to soak through the paper. This shirt turned out perfect. On the spray bleach shirts I only left them in the sun 2-3 minutes before I rinsed them off. I washed all the shirts with the extra rinse cycle right after we were done too. 
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