It's fun and easy to dye and wear your own colorful clothing!

Tie-dye is a wonderful way to turn simple fabrics and ready-made garments into dramatic fashion statements. This book teaches all of the most popular tie-dye techniques, including ice dyeing, crumple dyeing, and shibori. Author Suzanne McNeill shows beginners how to create a wide variety of designs and patterns, including stripes, spirals, swirls, speckles, circles, and sunbursts.

What you'll need

All you need to get started are inexpensive materials like fabric, string, rubber bands, a bucket and kettle, and dye.

Projects and ideas

Totally Awesome Tie-Dye offers an array of stylish step-by-step projects that go way beyond t-shirts to include socks, scarves, mittens, sneakers, home décor, and more.