The subtlety of cephalopods

All right, so I am posting late, but I actually finished this at about 3:15PM. Unfortunately, I only had time to take a picture before I had to run off to a superbowl...thing. My official take on the big game? Most. Boring. Game. Ever. Right up until the last two minutes, anyway.

That said, today I did a bleach-print t-shirt thing. It's something that I heard about from that lovely and talented sister of mine, and I thought it would be a good project to work on while I was waiting for water to boil for the appetizers I was preparing.

Here it is, in all of its squidly glory:



This is when the shirt was still wet--the effect is even more subtle now that the shirt has dried, but I must admit, I am quite pleased with the outcome. As per the sisterly instructions, I used an undiluted bleach spray rather than a 50% solution (which was what was typically called for in the websites I found that described the process). I also had a sink full of soapy water prepared so that I could stop the bleaching process very quickly, and I was certainly glad that I followed that piece of advice. As she suggested, the dynamics of the bleach are not at all linear. In fact, I would suggest that a graph of the bleaching action would be sigmoidal in shape.

If I had to do it over, I would probably make the tentacles thicker so that they would be better retained in the final product, but I have to say, I am looking forward to wearing my newly minted cephaloshirt. Hopefully this is an indication that this week will be better than the last one.