Hi Friends! I’m behind on work and DanyCon prep so this is going to be a short one! (And if it wasn’t a short one it would be WAY too long given the current events going on in the place I’m ashamed to call my country!) First off, before you do anything else, hop on over to enter June’s contest, you still have a few days.
Patricia and Julius both start waterplay at daycare soon! Julius needs to bring his water clothes home daily to have them washed, so I asked my local buy nothing group if anyone had any swim shirts they were getting rid of! My friend and another woman gave me several so I’m all set for when I inevitably forget to do laundry for a couple days. The one downside is a couple of the swim shirts didn’t have tags for me to write Julius’ name on, and the material was too dark for a sharpie, so I whipped up some labels. This took me all of about 20 minutes, and I have stitched the labels onto both Patricia’s and Julius’s water clothes. You could do the same with a fabric marker if you don’t have a sublimation machine. I might eventually make myself my own personalized “made by Lexi” labels. Those would have been great for my hatmaking days! 
Clothing Labels
- Sublimation machine & all the fixins’ (or just fabric markers)
- 5/8″ 100% polyester ribbon
- Using your tool of choice, create your labels, make sure they are only about 1/2″ tall. Print them onto sublimation paper using sublimation ink in your sublimation printer. Make sure you print designs reversed.
- Take your polyester ribbon and cut it into strips. Cut your labels into strips and place on top of the ribbon, leaving about an inch between each.
- Using a heat press or iron, press the labels at 400 F for 45 seconds.
- Remove paper and cut into individual labels.
- To stitch onto clothing, be sure to use the proper needle for the job! For instance, bathing suits and stretch fabrics require a ballpoint needle or a jersey needle.
