Our Mickey Head Tie-Dyed T-Shirts for WDW

It feels so good to FINALLY be getting around to posting some of my creations that I've been wanting to share.  These are the Mickey head tshirts I made for our trip this past August/September.  My original plan was to only make one set...the orange ones to wear to the Halloween party at the Magic Kingdom.  After I finished them, my oldest son wanted me to make another set of red and black ones!  Well once we had red and black ones....we "needed" a set for Animal Kingdom!  Then a set of red, white and blue ones that we could wear to DHS and Epcot!  We got TONS of comments on these shirts while we were there from cast members as well as other guests.  I swear I could have made a bundle if I would have made extra to take with me!  .....if only there wasn't that pesky little Disney trademark!  ;-) 

I used my Cricut and Mickey Font cartridge to cut Mickey heads and then traced them onto my tshirts with a pencil.  After the heads were traced I used wax covered dental floss to stitch around the Mickey head.  Once I had stitched around the entire head I pulled the dental floss as tight as I could to pucker up the Mickey head and then tied it off inside the tshirt.  I then used a rubberband (a THICK one....on the adult shirts I used a couple) around the base of the Mickey head to keep the dye from running onto the head itself.  Then I just laid the shirt out flat on the table with the puckered up Mickey head facing up...grabbing ahold of the Mickey head I twisted the shirt into a cinnamon bun shape and then used 4 rubberbands to hold it together criss-crossing them in two "X"s.  I used plastic condiment bottles that I found at the dollar store to put the dye into.  The bottles made it easier to control what colors I wanted going were on the shirt.