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November 2014 Rainbow Collective

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RandomInternetStranger · 06/05/2014 20:08

Thought I'd start a thread about it to see if it would work! Sign up here if you'd be interested.

(Copied from my post on the other thread) The idea could be that we could choose a colour each like one of us will be orange, another red, another yellow, and even non rainbow colours like hot pink, black, brown, and shades like lime green and bottle green, then all buy a bulk of whichever item - socks, bodysuits, babygrows, muslins, vests... just plain white, inexpensive, simple ones then post them out 1 to everyone who wants to take part. There's a finite number of colours so we'd have to work out numbers but say we have 15 who want to take part, we could split that into 3 groups of 5 so like 3 red ladies, 3 blue, 3 green, 3 yellow, 3 purple, then of those 3, 1 who has like 15 pairs of socks, 1 has 15 bodysuits, 1 has 15 vests... Then we post out 14 items to everyone else and we all end up with 15 multicoloured items. Would that work? Places like supermarkets and Primark have packs of 3 or 5 plain white items cheap, I think I saw 3 packs in Tesco for like 3. The more who sign up the more colours or items we could have, if we get enough then there could be 2 smaller groups instead of 1 large one so we're not buying and posting 50 items!!

I quite fancy doing long sleeve bodysuits in orange. Grin

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MummyV18 · 08/06/2014 21:27

Yeah my thinking was that if it was just muslins then you can just buy the rainbow ones but I didn't mind doing them along with the sleepsuits.

I don't want to throw a spanner in the works though which is why I said I'd back out.

I'll keep my eye on the tread and see what happens though but just stick to your plans as it's always hard to please everyone x

Alita7 · 08/06/2014 21:31

I think some of us bought the muslins for it already but don't want to be awkward either! was just thinking how sleep suits only last a few months but muslins for ages!

RandomInternetStranger · 08/06/2014 21:34

You can never have too many muslins and DD's old ones are still in use as cleaning cloths round the house 8 years on!! I'm happy with just muslins, but I would have liked clothing bits. We can always do 2 groups - one for muslins, one for clothes, of we can always do the muslin thing now and do another round in another month's time for sleepsuits or something. Smile

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MrsDowneyJunior · 14/06/2014 19:37

Is this still happening? :)

weeonion · 16/06/2014 22:16

thought so??

there was a suggestion that we would wait til after everyone has had their 20 week and aim for end of july??

MrsDowneyJunior · 16/06/2014 22:45

OK cool. I won't worry for a few weeks then! Grin

Alita7 · 06/07/2014 16:53

So what's the plan then?

I was wondering if I could change my colour? I did have purple but I think someone else was thinking of violet and I wouldn't mind doing camo green instead? I wanted to shove some other baby bits in with what we do and want some bits in camo green :)

Alita7 · 06/07/2014 16:53

and I think the two groups idea is a good one Mrs dj :) I have 12 muslins waiting :D

TwigletFiend · 10/07/2014 08:42

I am a go for muslins - ready and waiting here too! I would do vests too if there were a smallish number of us, but am happy with the muslins if not Smile

TwigletFiend · 16/07/2014 16:38

Hi ladies, if anyone still wants to do this please send me your addresses; I am having a housework weekend this weekend as it's due to be rainy so will be doing my dye-fest then! I have muslins enough for everyone and a small number of newborn-size vests that I will send with the first few that go out - unfortunately there's a limited number of those, but will send as many as I can afford!

Alita7 · 17/07/2014 18:02

Twig keep me off the vest list as im not doing them myself so want to be fair!

I'll send my address and will order some camo green dye?

MrsDowneyJunior · 18/07/2014 00:30

OK I've just ordered muslins, vests and dye and I'm ready to go. Who is in? :)

TwigletFiend · 18/07/2014 09:41

Meeee! Grin

Alita7 · 18/07/2014 10:34

I'm in for muslins only :)

PosyFossilsShoes · 19/07/2014 09:24

Muslins and vests I can do! I'm still violet I think.

We're having building work done which means no washing machine at the moment but I'm sure I can do a hand dye job!

MrsDowneyJunior · 21/07/2014 12:11

Oh dear the muslins have arrived and they're huge! More like swaddle cloths! lol! oh well, they'll just mop up or cover more!! Grin

Alita7 · 21/07/2014 18:19

Big muslins are better than small ones!

TwigletFiend · 22/07/2014 16:01

Posy, will you send me your address please? Smile

MrsDJ, mine are quite large too. All the better to mop up with, I say!

TwigletFiend · 22/07/2014 16:02

They'll be useful too if by some miracle I turn into Ginormaboob when my milk comes in Grin

TwigletFiend · 24/07/2014 08:45

They are on their way Smile It's come out a very dark, wine red sort of colour. Hope everyone likes it!

Alita7 · 24/07/2014 11:31

I got my dye in the post today :) so pm me addresses and ill get started :)

MrsDowneyJunior · 24/07/2014 13:04

Right mine are all done! The muslins have shrunk down a bit in the wash but are fine, and it's all turned out pretty even. PM me your addresses or if your coming to the Surrey meet on Sunday let me know and I'll bring them. :)

Alita7 · 25/07/2014 16:42

Mine are also done, is anyone other than posy and Mrs dj coming on Sunday that I could give them to in person?

Also are we ironing them?

MrsDowneyJunior · 25/07/2014 18:28

I'm ironing the muslins just because they've gone so wrinkly in the wash they look like hair scrunchies!!

I've only been PM'd 1 address and I'm a little nervous I've not heard from anyone else! Shall take 2 to the meet for posy & Alita but still awaiting addresses for everyone else! :)

PosyFossilsShoes · 25/07/2014 19:35

Ironing? What is this heresy?

(I'll wait and see how they turn out.)