Some of Otto's G-Diapers were looking pretttty tired so I thought I'd be a go-getter and give them a hippy makeover. But like a chump I picked out a sunshine yellow dye and ended up, well, with this crap:
Poor Otto. Yes, he will be wearing these tragedies and no I don't have money for more dye right now! But when I do, I'm thinking a rich brown might be pretty. What do you think?
-Lindsey
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I love the idea, but do you think brown and diaper mix? It might look like he's soiled himself when it's actually clean. Just a thought.
How about blue or green?
Pretty "forward-Thinking".....Nah! Back to the drawing board! LOL But at least you know for next time. Even my mistakes with colors when I'm crocheting are 'learning' moments! So.....! ^_^
@Jessi haha! You just made me realize I was planning on dying Ot's diapers brown on top of yellow! Ewww, what is wrong with me?! Hahaha! Thank you for opening my eyes, whoa!
@PW heart you! Yep, this was definitely a learning moment!
hehe...I thought you must have been joking about the brown. I vote for blues and greens and purples.
Have you tried washing them though? I'm always afraid the do-it-yourself dyes will bleed onto other laundry with each and every load. If you know a way to make the color stay well, maybe just do a solid dark color over them?
You could also try out fabric paint to make little decorations/drawings on them. I used that for Alexander's Charlie Brown shirt (the black zig-zag) and it seems to wash really well.
Thanks, Amy! I really like the fabric paint idea A LOT and actually have some fabric paints around here somewhere that I'd forgotten about. As for the dye bleed, I really don't have any tricks. I'm a little TOO seat-of-my-pants about these kinds of projects. But I think it'll be fine. I usually only wash diaps w/ towels & other things I don't care too much about. But will keep you posted after I redo the tie-dye (I'm thinking blue might be best bet, except for on the orange diap).
LOL live and learn, right?
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