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| Does anyone have suggestions for dying ME diapers or pics of dyed diapers? I'm thinking it would be fun to dye a few! |
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I've dyed all my diapers! It's so much fun! I use Dharma procion fiber reactive dyes and they're the best! Fiber reactive dyes are the highest quality you can get and make it easy to get bright, dark or vibrant colors plus they don't fade and don't bleed!
Give me a bit and I'll post some pics...
Karen.
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| I would love to see these! |
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Here's a small sampling of my dyed diapers. I've got a couple more solid colors that are dirty right now (a nice bright green that I can remember off hand) and lots more multi-colored ones. I've done quite a few for friends as well... I can't figure out a way to put the picture directly in my post, can anyone tell me how to do that?
<A href="http://www.imagehost.ca/is.php?i=17307&img=diapers2.JPG">http://www.imagehost.ca/is.php?i=17307&img=diapers2.JPG</A>
Karen.
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| Oh WOW!!!!! I love them!! Do you know where I could get the dye. I live in Canada. They are so nice!! |
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| Those are gorgeous!!! I love them! I'll have to order some dye. I was thinking of it anyway to do some cloth, but now I definitely have to do it! |
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I'm in Canada as well and got mine from the Dharma website (<A href="http://www.dharmatrading.com">www.dharmatrading.com</A>). I started with their starter kit (has everything you need plus a small amount of three colors - lemon yellow, turquoise and fushia red (pink)). It was a good intro and not too expensive (I think around $20). Then I wanted more variety so I bought more colors later on. Shipping is the real killer for cost but if you don't buy the soda ash there you can save a lot on shipping cause it's so heavy. I just use a product called PH plus from a pool supply shop instead. It's the exact same thing - sodium carbonate - and just made to increase the ph of pool water (which is the same thing it does in your dye bath).
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| That is pretty awesome! They never bleed or make your baby's skin discolored after having a wet diaper? I would never have thought you could dye the diapers since the are usually wet on a kid or wet in a pail or wet in a washer or wet on the clothesline/dryer! Who knew..... |
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Nope, they never bleed or discolor skin. Not unless they haven't been rinsed well enough after dyeing, but that's only ever happened once and I just rinsed it again and it was fine afterwards.
Karen.
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Have you ever tried to dye the AF covers? I've been too afraid to try, so I just fabric paint/rubber stamped my plain covers with cowboy themed pictures. They turned out okay. I guess I was just too worried they'd bleed onto clothing. Does the dye work on covers? Have you noticed any difference in how each material takes the dye? Bamboo vs cotton....
Cheers!
p.s. Why do your ME Sandy's have the green/blue ME tags on them and not the whale? Just curious.... |
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I have tried dying the covers and it works so-so. Theoretically it shouldn't work at all because the covers are polyester and these dyes don't work on polyester (it takes special dyes and special conditions to dye polyester). But I tried it anyway and had some success. I found the fushia pink gave me a nice light pink cover (and I could make it a smidge darker by dying a second or third time). I found that the binding edges takes the dye a tiny bit better than the rest of the cover, but you definetly don't get dark colors or anything. I found also that I could get a light jade type green as well, can't recall which color I used for that. I never tried blue or yellow since ME already has pale blue and pale yellow covers. I tried red, thinking I might get a darker pink but it didn't work at all, couldn't even tell they were dyed! Oh, and I also tried a purple and it worked reasonably well too.
I also once dyed some AIOs for someone, thinking I could get a purple and a pink like my covers. The insides took just great but for some odd reason, the outside didn't take at all. I thought it was the same fabric as the covers but maybe it's slightly different or something, I don't know. Point being that dying covers is kinda unpredictable. They never bled at all though...
I haven't noticed any difference between cotton and bamboo but then I've never dyed the two of them side by side so it's hard to say. Both turned out great...
For the tags, most do have the whale tag, but the multi-colored one doesn't because it's actually not a Sandy's, it's a Toddle-Ease and they never have the whale tag.
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| These are so cute. I wish I had the guts to do it. You need to go into business. Way cool!!! |
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It's really not that difficult. A little intimidating at first, but really it's pretty easy.
I thought about doing a bit of a business out of it, quite a few people have told me that (my neighbours even noticed my diapers and made that comment). I kinda tried a bit by trying to sell some dyed diapers on eBay but most of the time I didn't even break even on the cost of the diaper! And doing 'custom' work would be great (and I've done it a few times), but the shipping costs back & forth are usually too high to make it worthwhile...
Although, a thought just occured to me and maybe I could sell my 'services' at a local cloth diaper shop... Hmmm, that hadn't occured to me till now... I wonder... I'll have to give that some thought...
Karen.
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| That is a good idea. I would pay for this. But you are right about the shipping. DH does not like shipping costs. |
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