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The white ones ME sells. Can they be dyed, like with tie dye? I thought maybe using diluted ink also. Anybody have experience?
My son broke his leg and can't wear his woolies anymore. The cast is too big! So his cover will be his outer wear too(weather permitting!). White just won't fly with my guy! Need input please, mamas!
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| For your sake, I hope they can be! Hope the little guy recovers quickly. You might be able to find some colorful wool or fleece covers with side snaps on FSOT. If you sew at all, I think drawstring fleece trousers or shorts would be relatively easy (and inexpensive) to make. You could make one leg big enough to slip over the cast while still keeping the uncast leg warm enough during cool weather. |
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Well, thanks for the well wishes. We are crossing our fingers that the next 3 weeks go fast & are warm! I thought we might just use our baby legs leg warmers for his naked leg if it does cool down. I don't sew but I knit. Unfortunately, I knit S L O W! I just learned in January. All his shorts are boardshorts that I knit from wool, so his cast is too big to fit into the leg hole. He has a cast from thigh to past his toes.
So of course, I would have sold most of his unused AF covers. It's life!
PSA- Don't slide down a slide with a child on your lap. His foot got caught on the side wall and stopped us both. Spiral fractured his tibia. Ouchy! |
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Unfortunetly the short answer is no. The covers are made of polyester and it's very difficult to dye polyester. I even contacted the people at Dharma to ask and they told me that the chemicals used to dye polyester are very very strong and they don't even sell them. You need either extremely high heat or strong chemicals.
That said, I have had some mild, inconsistant success with it. I had some white covers and was dying diapers anyway so I figured I had nothing to lose so I just threw a couple in the dye bath. A couple times I got lucky and came out with some pale colors. I tried pink, red, jade green and purple if memory serves correctly. The pink, jade and purple turned out a little bit, giving me pale versions of the color. Red did nothing at all. Never bothered to try blue or yellow since ME already sold those colors (at the time they didn't have pink). But then I tried dying some AIOs for someone, used the same colors, the same technique, same ingredients and for some unknown reason it didn't work that time. The inside fabric took the color but not the outside PUL. All I can figure is that the PUL in the AIOs was slightly different from the PUL in the covers. Dunno...
Anyway, sorry, wish I had better news. Not sure I can offer much in terms of suggestions. If it was a longer term thing I could recomend other more colorful covers but I'm not sure it's worthwhile for just a couple of weeks. By the time you'd receive them, he'd probably only have a week at most to wear them. For that matter, good quality dyes often have to be ordered as well so even dying isn't ideal unless you already had the dyes.
Hope the little heals well and fast. I had a cast last summer and it was pretty horrible! Hope the nice weather holds out, it's getting pretty cold up here, leaves are gonna start changing soon...
Karen. |
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Oh well. I had figured there must be a reason you just don't see colored covers around. What about using the diluted pen ink Karen?
At least kiddos heal faster than we adults, on Monday, he'll only have 2 more weeks to go! Yikes! Having a cast all summer would not be fun. How's the new house? |
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Hope those 2 weeks go by fast. Distraction will probably be the biggest thing! ;-)
Fortunetly I didn't have the cast all summer, only a little over 2 weeks. But it was a very long 2 weeks as I'm mildly clausterphobic (sp???) and the inability to move (or scratch!!!) sent me into at least 2-3 panic attacks. If I ever have a cast again it's going to have to come with some tranquilizers!! I can't imagine someone having to keep a cast for several months. And a toddler having one for 3 weeks is probably going to be the 3 longest weeks of his (or your!) life!
The new house is great, thanks for asking. Still a million things to do though, and here I naively thought the worst was over when we moved! HA!!
Karen. |
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What about getting some permanant markers and letting him design his own covers? Hope the 2 weeks goes quickly! |
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| That's a great idea, sallyjean! Marker sticks to everything else, poly can't be that different, right? Besides, he'll have fun! |
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I'm assuming here that you aren't too worried about resale value?
How about colored Sharpies? I drew some Lightning McQueens on my son's underwear about a year ago and they are still on there. If you had carbon paper you could trace on some of his favorite characters and color them in . . . Or, maybe easier, how about some different-colored spirals and geometric shapes with polka dots in between? |
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