Now mine is a sad tale indeed.
I had been working on a black & white quilt for an unborn grandson...as soon as his ultra sound showed me what he was...I started little bow tie blocks in black & white, and put a red inner border on, with outer border and backing in black.
It was very artistic, and drew his eyes.
It was scrappy, and each block had different fabrics, with most referencing either a hand game (like patty cakes, or itsy bitsy spider, l"m a little tea pot) or a child's song.
It was much loved, and therefore, well used and dirty.
I would lay the infant on that blanket and he would sometimes spit up on it.
So when the time came, his mother threw it in the washing with some other stuff...and the detergent had "color safe" bleach...
Ahhhhh. Those blacks were mostly "over dies" that turned either brown or blue. And some of the scraps came unraveled, even though they were quilted 1/4 from seam.
That grandson is almost 13 now, and still moans over his baby quilt turning brown. He had thought it looked so "graphic", modern and kool, he wanted to hang it on his bedroom wall.
Attached is the before. I am not even sure where it is now.
Still around somewhere. Will ask my daughter, as she is the one here to take care of me today...and see if she knows where it was put so I could replace the pieces that un-raveled they shurnk so bad...it's here somewhere.
Will take photo and post the after later.