Genius Hour Reflection #1

My partner Suman and I have decided to do tie dye for our genius hour project. We chose this as our topic because we have always wanted to learn to tie dye. I remember myself seeing tie dye shirts and wanting to learn how to make my own. Therefore, I am very grateful l I know have a chance to learn how to do something I have always wanted to do and that to with a good friend. My partner and I have learned many new techniques. I thought tie dye was very simple I thought all you did was put rubber bands around a cloth and squirt dye all over it, but that is definitely not how you do it. The different techniques we learned were the folding tie dye technique, the ombre technique and the sponge tie dye technique.

In order to do this project we have to get through a numerous amount of obstacles some of which were the supplies, the location and the overall learning. As for the supplies we realized you can get them from Michaels. As for the location we chose to alternate houses, and for the overall learning we watched YouTube videos and looked online.  The internet has been a huge resource but to narrow it down these sites helped the most: http://www.favecrafts.com/Tie-Dye and http://www.prochemical.com/directions/Folding.htm. Although we are almost done preparing and are ready to start on our project we still have a few questions. Some are what type of colors to use? What techniques will look nice? And what product should we show the class? We are very excited to start on our genius hour project.