We skipped the traditional Fourth of July stuff to visit our friends Chris, Ingrid and Joy-Lily in San Francisco. Ingrid was feeling poorly so she stayed in her room while Chris and I went out for sushi and Joy-Lily and Bob dyed T shirts. Joy is a fabric artist who had just finished teaching a workshop so she had leftover dye to share. She and Bob used a technique she calls "jar dyeing" which is kind of like tie-die without the tying. Basically, you stuff the T shirts in glass bottles or anything big enough to hold them and then squirt dye in the bottles. The dye falls randomly on whatever parts of the fabric are accessible. Later, there are some follow-up steps involving putting the jars out in the sun for hours and then rinsing them out in the washing machine -- and voila, you end up with T Shirt Surprise!
I say T shirts, but while they were at it, Joy also dyed a tablecloth and various other items. The bathrooms in their house feature multi-colored wash clothes and towels, Joy's bedroom curtains are printed in marbled swirls and huge silk paintings stretched on canvas adorn her walls. Some of room-mates' pants and even tennis shoes are dyed with bright splashes of color. I hesitate to speculate about their underwear.
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