Q&A: Can you dye clothes for a newborn baby?
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Q&A: Can you dye clothes for a newborn baby?
We didn’t find out the sex of our baby and the only unisex clothes we can find are white! We only have 3 weeks until the little one arrives and we wanted to tie dye some clothes! If we washed the clothes lots after dying them, would that be ok?
The following is the answer:
Answer by Kc Mrow
Yes, you can use Rit dye and then just make sure you wash them with the baby detergent before baby wears them.
Answer by sea_blonde
I think so, unless your child is born with allergies.
Answer by Patricia M
There new skin is so sensitive. why risk it.
Answer by MeVsMaradonaVsElvis
I think it should be okay. I’m sure most baby’s clothing out there is dyed anyway in one form or another.
Answer by Cades Mommy
i would not do it. but if you do wash them 2 or 3 times first just to make sure all the dye are out. good luck
Answer by lilawo2000
i do not think so, as it could be rough on the baby’s skin.
Answer by joaniepony
That sounds like a lot of work.
Answer by Christ K
It shouldn’t matter whether you wash baby’s clothes apart or with other people’s laundry, provided the following are true:
1) You are using a detergent that is free of perfumes, dye’s and chemicals.
2) The clothing being washed with your baby’s clothing is not contaminated by chemicals, fiberglass particles, solvents, heavy cleaning agents, tobacco residue (ashes, tobacco leaf itself, pipe tobacco etc), or excessive amounts of synthetic lose fibers.
3) That the wash cycle is always hot or warm to kill off any bacteria, and a secondary rinse cycle is recommended if the load is large
Answer by holly
babies tend to suck anything near their mouth so no I definately wouldn’t do that.
Answer by malicedmind
Wal-Mart has some pale green onesies and yellow ones too, perfect for unisex. Please don’t make your baby wear tie dye yet, those shirts itch like crazy!
Give your answer to this question below!
Yes,they would be safe,but probably not pretty.
Dyes work better with solid natural fibers.Baby clothes can be synthetic,or mixed material,or colors.
And,believe it or not,the baby wont care what color clothes are.
Those clothes will be out grown so fast you wont believe it,so I would just dress him/her at home in whatever,and change into neutral colors for grocery,g-ma whatever.
Trust me your kid just wants to be warm,thats it.
There’s no need to wash them ‘lots’.
The clothes, if they are any color besides a rough natural beige, have already BEEN dyed.
If there is ANY color- and abscense of color (white),
they’ve been dyed.
Do what you want with them, then wash then once before baby wears them, just like everything else for the first few months.
I dyed onesies (spelling???) using food coloring in hot water with a bit of vinegar. Came up with pink, light blue, lavendar and green. The color stayed intact through the time the sizes fit.
The problem with all-purpose dye, such as Rit, is that it bleeds forever in the laundry. Perhaps a small amount of dye will leach out when the baby sucks on the clothes. We have no hard evidence that this is harmful, but we do know that the dyes are not safe when eaten, so it would make more sense to use a dye that does not bleed out of the fabric when wet.
The safest dye to use for baby clothes is fiber reactive dye, such as Procion dye. This dye forms a permanent chemical bond with the clothing and does not bleed out. You must fix the dye properly, but you’d want to do that anyway, by following the instructions that come with your tie dye kit (all you do is soak it in soda ash, which is an ingredient found in most laundry detergents, before putting on the dye. You can’t use laundry detergent for this, but must use the pure soda ash.) After you do the dyeing, you should wash the baby clothes once in cool water, and then two or more times in HOT water, to be sure that all excess unattached dye has been removed.
Tie-dyed clothing looks SO much better on babies than the boring stuff they sell in the stores, and properly dyed clothing does not itch one bit. You can go for bright tie-dye looks or just dye the clothing your favorite colors, no need to be limited to the ugly baby clothes at the store! Choose only 100% cotton clothing for dyeing. For more variety, look at the dozens of different adorable white baby clothes sold by DharmaTrading.com for dyeing.
Where can you buy Procion dyes? You can buy good tie-dye kits or the individual dyes and accessories economically from a supplier such as Dharma Trading Company or PRO Chemical & Dye. If you want to buy in a local shop, go to a sewing store or a good crafts store and look for a tie-dye kit made by Jacquard or Tulip or Rainbow Rock or Dritz or Dylon. Avoid the Rit tie-dye kit, because it contains the all-purpose dye that we’d rather avoid for baby clothes, and avoid Dylon Multi Purpose dye, because it does, too. The Funky Groovy tie-dye kit is good. Other good dyes include Dylon Cold Dye, Dylon Permanent Dye, and Tulip One Step Fashion Dye. Sometimes you can find one of the good brands of tie-dye kit at Target or ToysRUs or Walmart, but sewing stores and crafts stores are a better bet. Mail-order sources save money in the long run but make you wait for a week or so for delivery.
It depends on the fabric composition and the color you wish to choose for the clothes of your newborn baby.
This company I know of, specializes in fabric dyeing and will very likely be able to dye baby clothes. They guarantee their work and the color of your clothes will not bleed or fade when washing them in hot water, after they have been dyed. They specialize in dyeing dresses, jeans, pretty much anything, as long as it has a natural fabric composition meaning cotton, wool, silk, linen etc, and even if it contains a small percentage of polyester or some other “not-natural” fabric it may still be able to dye the dress. Here’s their link:
http://www.spectrumfirm.com
To get an estimate go to this link:
http://www.spectrumfirm.com/estimate.htm