Materials:
-Fabric bleach (about a pint)
-Colored shirt, preferably cotton
-Cold water
1) Pour your bleach into a bucket or large container of any sort. Dilute it with a little water. The more water you add the less dramatic and slower your change will be, but it's a good idea to add at least a little water to your bleach. Make sure to wear clothes you don't care about, because I learned the hard way that it is extremely easy to get bleach onto your clothes.
2) Dip your shirt into the bleach, making sure to submerge it only as deep as you want the color to change.
3)Leave your shirt to sit for a couple of hours, checking periodically. The longer you leave your shirt in the more the bleach will change the color, so it's up to you for how long you soak your shirt.
4) Once your shirt is bleached how you want it, remove your shirt and soak it in a tub of cold water. This is just to wash off the excess bleach.
5) Wash your shirt. Make sure it is absolutely bleach free before continuing onto the next steps.
6) Cut off the very bottom of your shirt, where the stitching is. This makes it easier to work with
6) Cut off the very bottom of your shirt, where the stitching is. This makes it easier to work with
7) Cut fringe into the bottom of your shirt. It can be as long as you want, mine was about six inches long and 1/4 of an inch wide.
8) Tie knots into your fringe, going around and trying two strips together at a time, like this:
9) Once you have gone around once, you will go around again. This part is tricky, and will do my best to explain it. Grabbing one strip, skip two strips and tie it with the strip three away from it. If you continue this all the way around your shirt, you will get a sort of interlocking braid. But this is difficult, and took me multiple tries to get right.
10) I washed my shirt one more time before I wore it, just to make sure the knots are really tight and will stay in while i'm wearing my shirt.
That's it!
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