what did I do wrong?!?!

[mom_to_2]

So I made some t-shirts for y 2 sons, my husband and myself. I prewashed all of them and all of the guys shirts turned out amazing, mine, though, were messed up. All of the white portions of the decal turned pink...what did I do wrong??????

 

[extremesoccermom]

I did this myself with black shirts. Your iron was to hot and it melted the "iron material" to far into the shirt. Mine was bad. I wish I would have taken a picture to show everyone what happened. You could not even make out the characters I had on the iron on.
I reprinted the iron ons and reironed them over the other one after turning the iron down a little. It came out OK. I can still see a difference (being the perfectionist that I am) but no one else can tell.

 

[Jenniferb]

That happened to one of mine too. I was so disappointed. But I fixed it. I went to office depot and bougt ultra fine tip sharpie markers and just colored it in. Looks great now. No one will know but me. I just hope it holds up for the one day we plan to wear it.

 

[mom_to_2]

That happened to one of mine too. I was so disappointed. But I fixed it. I went to office depot and bougt ultra fine tip sharpie markers and just colored it in. Looks great now. No one will know but me. I just hope it holds up for the one day we plan to wear it.

they make sharpies with white ink???


I did another set of shirts last night...these were navy. Well, AGAIN, all of the 3 boys' shirts turned out fine, but with mine the color bled through!!! With this design it is much less noticeable because there isn't too muc white, but still... I'm so disappointed!!!

 

[wgwtgb]

Are you using a different kind of shirt than the boys? They do make white fabric markers that you could try to use.

 

[mom_to_2]

same brand, but I guess it is possible the men's and women's shirts are different. I'll have to check!

 

[Jenniferb]

The white part was actually OK. It was the colored parts. They just looked like they had faded into the fabric somehow. After I colored it with the sharpie, the few faded spots on the white are not even noticable.