For some reason I am obsessed with rainbows right now! I decided to spruce up our stash a bit before baby #2 makes her appearance. I decided to dye our Osocozy unbleached flats in the colors of the rainbow. While I was at it, I also threw in all of my white cloth nursing pads, and picked up a few cheap Gerber shirts. I am THRILLED with the results!
I had 24 flats, so I did 4 of each color, plus a shirt in each color, and there are 2 pairs of nursing pads for each color. This photo was taken before I located all 6 shirts in my laundry room :) 
I did a little research and found that Tulip and Dylon were the most often recommended for dying cloth diapers, so I went to Hobby Lobby and picked up Tulip dyes. They are normally $2.99 each, so it's good to wait for a sale/coupon.
I did purple first and it's the only color I got "during" photos of. One gallon of steaming hot water, 1/4 cup of salt, and the dye packet. Stir continuously for 15 minutes, then occasionally for 45 minutes. Rinse in cold water, wash in warm. Make sure you have a drink to sip on, and some music playing! I got SO tired of standing there stirring! In my opinion, this was the perfect amount of dye for the items I dyed. I wouldn't have wanted any more in there.
This was after my cool rinse, before I threw them in the wash. SOOOO pretty!
I'm SO excited about these! My 1st daughter was born in May, so a lot of her hand-me-downs are summery. I wanted some long sleeve shirts in fun colors to match our woolies, but couldn't find anything in town that would work! These are SO gorgeous with our woolie stash, I just can't wait!
The flats. <3 I am soooo crazy about these! Who knew something so simple could be so fun! My mother in law emailed me about 5 minutes after I shared these pictures on my personal Facebook page - she was SO excited that I was dying stuff, and that it turned out so great.
The final "group" photo! I'm so excited!
What do you think ?
Love these!!! I want to go dye stuff now!!
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Those turned out gorgeous!!!
ReplyDeleteI want some!! These turned out GREAT!!
ReplyDeleteOk , I have to find a place to purchase tulip dyes (no hobby lobby near me any more!) I have 36 white pre-folds that seriously need some life! how pretty! I love the rainbow of shirts!
ReplyDeleteThose are so pretty!! I have never dyed anything before, weren't you worried that it would leave dye is your washer? That's the only thing that ever held me back!
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Thank you, everyone!
ReplyDeleteAfter I washed all of the colors, I ran a load of our raggy old towels with a little bleach to clean out the washer. I didn't do it in between colors, and I had no bleeding!
They are beautiful, I've never dyed anything before.
ReplyDeleteLove it!
ReplyDeleteI love these. I like how the colors are so bright!!
ReplyDeleteYou did an awesome job-now I want to dye some stuff! I just got some NB prefolds that could use some color :) Maybe I'll get real creative and do some tie-dye!
ReplyDeleteLove it! Curious, where did you get those gerber shirts? My daughter was also born in May and I'm looking for those types of shirts (without the onsie bottom) to wear with her cloth diapers and cannot find them anywhere! At carters, oshkosk, the children's store, walmart, target... anywhere I've looked, they only go to a 3-6 mo and my little girl is already in 6-9!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Beautiful! Now I want to dye some stuff too. I have tons of flats and having them in rainbow colors would make them so much more fun! Will they bleed/wash dye onto your other cloth diapers when you wash them (do they need to be washed separately for a while)? Love this idea!
ReplyDeleteWow!! This is so pretty!! I want to dye some of our boring whites now too :)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, those came out really beautifully! I can't wait to see pictures of those on a cutie baby at some point ;)
ReplyDeleteThose turned out great! When I did tie due with the kids this past summer all of our shirts faded after they were washed. It looks like yours stayed nice and bright though.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the colors you chose! They turned out beautifully! It makes me want to go find some dye and dye our flats and some plain white tees :)
ReplyDeleteI love the colors! They turns out gorgeous! I wonder how non-toxic and safe the dyes are? Did you do any research on the brands?
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty!!
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