How to Do the Lightning Fold When Bleaching Old Black Shirts

Xylo0 saw the instructable for transforming old black t-shirt asked me how to do the arrow pattern effect.   As there wasn't room on the comments to explain properly (with diagrams), I am making a new instructable to explain how it is done.   The name of this fold is actually the "lightning" fold.

I have taken one of my already bleached shirts, as it seems to show up the folds more than a plain one. Fold in half, sleeve to sleeve.

Fold the sleeves into the center. Keep it nice and flat.

Take hold of the shirt about halfway up from the bottom and fold it up towards the neck. This is the first fold

Make two more folds up from the bottom of the shirt. You will have three folds altogether. See both photos.

Starting at the bottom outer corner (below the sleeve side)Fold and scrunch diagonally towards the opposite edge of the neck, until you have a flat rectangular shape. Start putting the bands on to hold the shape. It is hard to fold this as you have quite a thickness going there. Keep it folding as diagonally as you can.

Put on the bands very tightly, but keep the shirt flat. You can then put it in the bleach bath as instructed under
https://www.instructables.com/id/Transforming-a-boring-old-black-t-shirt-using-blea/
You should then get a somewhat similar pattern to the "arrow" design, depending on the shirt and how well you have been able to fold the thicknesses. It's worth a try. You can also use this fold to do a tie dye! Works very well using Black and red, or black and green! The picture shown is of a sleeveless tank top that I folded in this pattern in blue and yellow.