I really like sweats with screen printed designs on them with a lot of stuff going on. And I also wanted some more Ice-Dyed pants. I was inspired by fellow Sloth @sloth003 to use the snow to ice dye! Sort of a therapy to deal with my dislike of winter. I sort of dreamed these up one night.
I used a geode-like method (I didn’t tighten the cord super tight since I didn’t want bright white lines) of tying to dye some $12 plain white sweatpants. They looked like this before:
They weren’t exactly what I wanted though, so after dying them I cut off the excess bottom fabric and used some ribbing from a thrifted black sweater for the ankles. Then I switched out the white drawstring to a black one and poked holes through the waist band to switch them to the outside. I combined two black drawstrings to make them extra long.
I wanted the painted details to look a little rough and I used a vintage stencil set to make the sea animal designs.
One thing is I blanket-stitched the ribbing on and one of them ended up being upside-down with the frayed edge on the end but after having to redo one of them already because I decided I still wanted the legs shorter I’m reticent to redo it right now. Maybe once I get annoyed with it or actually bother to take out my giant antique sewing machine. 
I’m hoping it doesn’t fray too much. It’s knit but it’s a bigger knit so do you think it’ll great too much? As for the tshirt-style knit fabric of the pants, I didn’t reinforce the holes I made to pull the drawstring through the front. Do you think that will fray too much? If it’s a knit fabric it shouldn’t, right? If it could I’ll probably just do a quick whip stitch around the holes so let me know if you think it will!
I really like how these turned out. I’m surprised. Thanks for looking!
When there’s no snow I usually have to stockpile bags of ice in my freezer until there’s enough of it, or buy a big bag. I should probably share what the dye pattern on the back of these looks like because I think it’s actually better than the front. I have another set of ice-dyed tshirts being dyed right now. These are 100% cotton which always turn out the coolest! The pants are 65% cotton, 35% polyester so there’s less detail.