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Washing our store bought Raichu plush
🕑 Added 2023-03-18 17:00:05 +0000 UTCENGLISH/ESPAÑOL
Hello everybunny!
In a couple of days we will post the big clodsire finished, it turned out beautiful and we want to take some photos and prepare the sewing instructions.
But today we want to show you a small personal project we've done in our free time. We have shown old plush repair and/or pattern modifications (like the Pokemon Center Inteleon plush). It's something that, despite not taking as commissions often, we enjoy doing a lot. This time, we've worked with Cris' comfort plush. It's a raichu from the Pokemon Yurutto collection. It's made of mochi fabric, it's very soft and they sleep with him every night. That's why, after time, it's gotten dirty and worn out. So we decided to give him a deep cleaning.
First, we emptied it. We already saw that the mochi stuffing was flattened and clustered, so we would stuff it with new stuffing when finished. The only parts we didn't empty were the front paws and the tail because those were stuffed before being sewn to the body.
Once unstuffed, we washed it with detergent inside a barrel with room temperature water, rubbing the fabric with each other to clean it properly. Since it's hand washed, it's important to wash and rinse it several times. We want to remove any dirt and soap that may be left.
After washing and rinsing it, we squished it gently, trying to remove as much water as possible. To dry it, we left it in the clothes rack, but not hanging, we let it horizontal, as flat as possible to avoid any residual wetness. We left it inside our home, because direct sun could damage the fabric.
It took several days, but once it was 100% dry, we fixed some of the darts that were pointy, specially the one in the chin. It's the same we did to Inteleon's tummy.
And finally you have some photos of the before and after washing it! He recovered the intense colors he had at the beginning, and he also looks more round and squishy. Also, the darts look better now. We could've washed it in the washing machine, but apart from being special, by unstuffing it we made sure that there was no humidity left inside. And stuffing flattens with time, so we wanted to change it as well.
We hope that this post helps you if you want to wash your plushies someday ^^
What do you think? It looks like a radiant new raichu~
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Hello everybunny!
En un par de días os subiremos ya el Clodsire grande terminado, ha quedado precioso y queremos hacerle las fotitos y preparar las instrucciones de bordado.
Pero hoy os queremos subir un pequeño proyecto que hemos hecho en nuestro tiempo libre. En alguna ocasión os hemos enseñado alguna reparación de peluches antiguos y/o modificación de patrones (como el Inteleon del Pokémon Center). Es un trabajo que, aunque no solemos coger como encargo, nos gusta bastante hacer. En esta ocasión, hemos tratado con el peluche de confort de Cris. Es un raichu de la colección Pokemon Yurutto. Es de tela mochi, blandito y cada noche duerme con él. Por ello, con los años, ha ido ensuciándose y estropeándose un poco. Así que decidimos hacerle una limpieza profunda.
Primero, lo vaciamos entero. Ya veíamos que el relleno mochi estaba algo viejo y muy usado, así que lo rellenaríamos con relleno nuevo al terminar. Las únicas partes que no vaciamos fueron las patas delanteras y la cola, pues habían sido rellenadas antes de coserse al cuerpo.
Una vez vaciado, lo lavamos con detergente de ropa en un barreño con agua templada, frotando la tela entre si para limpiarla bien. Es importante que, como es a mano, hacerle varias enjabonadas y aclararlo a conciencia. Queremos que se quite todo residuo y jabón que pueda quedar.
Tras lavarlo y aclararlo bien, lo escurrimos con cuidado, intentando quitar la mayor cantidad de agua posible. Y para secarlo, lo pusimos en nuestro tendedero, pero no colgado, sino en horizontal, intentando que quedase lo más plano posible para que no quedase humedad en ninguna pieza. Lo secamos dentro de casa, sin darle el sol directo, porque el sol podría dañar la tela.
Y una vez seco 100%, le arreglamos un poco algunas pinzas que veíamos mal, sobre todo la de la barbilla. Es lo mismo que hicimos con la pinza de la tripa de Inteleon.
Y aquí tenéis unas fotos del antes y el después de la limpieza! Ha recuperado el color intenso que tenía al principio, y también se ve más redondo y squishy. Además, con el cambio en las pinzas, se le ven mejor las costuras. Podríamos haberlo puesto en la lavadora al ser un peluche insdutrial, sin abrirlo ni nada. Pero aparte de que es especial, al vaciarlo, nos aseguramos que no quede humedad dentro. Y el relleno con el tiempo también se apelmaza mucho, por eso quisimos cambiarlo.
Esperamos que este post os ayude si en algún momento queréis lavar vuestros peluches a fondo ^^
Cómo lo veis? Parece un raichu radiante y nuevo~
Comments
I love the picture poking his head out of the soap, he looks like he's enjoying his bath 🥰
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Thank you so much Winged!! 🥺
This is such a beautiful project to work on! I love how sentimental it is, and it turned out like new! I'm really impressed by how you were able to restore it. It's motivational for some of my old plushies haha. The Raichu is also such a cute plushie!! ❤
Yes, that makes perfect sense!! I think unstuffing first might result in a more thorough cleaning too, especially hand washed. Im eager to try this out suddenly hehe
Thanks!! You can refluff the old stuffing by separating the fibers yourself. It's time consuming but it works. We reuse all the stuffing from prototypes (both regular and mochi) this way ^^ We used new stuffing because the old was too dirty. But since you've machine washed it then it's clean. We just don't trust our washing machine, it's very old, so we prefer to hand wash anything delicate
Omg, i love seeing him all renewed and rejuvinated!! I have special squishmallow plush that i sleep with every night and ive been thinking of doing the same. Theyve been machine washed a few times but the stuffing is all lumpy now... been thinking about changing it out but mochi stuffing is SO hard to find. Do you know if lumpy mochi stuffing be rejuvinated too? Or is completely brand new the best?
it was very clean. Ready to compete with bad dreams
