Happy Solution for Prewash Lesson Learned
06-07-2013, 02:59 PM
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Happy Solution for Prewash Lesson Learned
Hope this does not happen to anyone else, but I found a solution in case you find yourself in a similar situation.
I had completed a quilt for my soon-to-be-born grandson's baby shower and washed it with color catchers. But one of the fabrics faded in the wash in a most uneven fashion - it seemed as though the fabric was defective and did not hold the color consistantly.
So I found a Sharpie marker called Stained with brush tip that is designed for fabric and dabbed tiny little dots to fill in the missing color.
It looks soooo much better! Here is a picture of one of the faded parts and the "touched up" area to the right and a picture of the top before quilting and washing.
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The design for the quilt came from this quilt a long website
http://cuttopieces.blogspot.com/2012...ong-sneak.html
I had completed a quilt for my soon-to-be-born grandson's baby shower and washed it with color catchers. But one of the fabrics faded in the wash in a most uneven fashion - it seemed as though the fabric was defective and did not hold the color consistantly.
So I found a Sharpie marker called Stained with brush tip that is designed for fabric and dabbed tiny little dots to fill in the missing color.
It looks soooo much better! Here is a picture of one of the faded parts and the "touched up" area to the right and a picture of the top before quilting and washing.
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The design for the quilt came from this quilt a long website
http://cuttopieces.blogspot.com/2012...ong-sneak.html
06-07-2013, 03:06 PM
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wow! good save! I am going to have to find these markers to have on hand for those...just in case...moments. so glad it turned out well in the long run- I would be worried about that fabric though- baby/kid quilts tend to be laundered a lot----is the rest of the blue going to fade away?
06-07-2013, 03:11 PM
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I did wash it a second time because I hoped it might "fade" more evenly, but it didn't seem any better or worse. Next time I will PREWASH 
I did notice while quilting that there was a slight blue tinge on my Machingers gloves, that should have been a sign!
I did notice while quilting that there was a slight blue tinge on my Machingers gloves, that should have been a sign!
06-07-2013, 03:45 PM
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How weird. That faded spot almost looks like it was bleached somehow. I wonder if the color catcher was sitting on that spot during a spin cycle and sucked up the dye or something.... I'm glad you were able to fix it!
06-07-2013, 08:49 PM
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Looks to me like you fixed the problem. Not to rub it in, I always prewash all my fabrics. If one is going to be a bad choice I want to find out before I use it. So far I haven't found any bad ones.
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