look what I found!
#22
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Southeast Va
Posts: 245
Wow! Looks like 30's fabric to me. I'd better finish some of my UFO's or they might end up in a yard sale one day. HA HA
Check with your local quilt shop about stain removal, there's a product out there that helps to restore older fabric and its safer than bleach. Can't remember what it's called.
Check with your local quilt shop about stain removal, there's a product out there that helps to restore older fabric and its safer than bleach. Can't remember what it's called.
#23
I just finished reading a book, it was a novel, about a woman who restores antique quilts. She mixed together a qt of buttermilk,a gallon of water, a tablespoon of lemon juice, let it sit for awhile and dabbed it over the places that needed to be cleaned. She didn't rinse. Just let it air dry.
#24
Just put them to soak in Woolite and cool water. Rinse and roll in a WHITE towel and wring. Place them flat on another wHITE towel to dry.
If that doesn't help remove the discoloration. I have found the Efferdent tablets help remove a lot of the old "storage" stains.
I say white towel because I washed doll dress that was on my antique doll in warm soapy water then rolled it in a very old blue towe. That towel had been washed at least a hundred times. The organza dress had blue spots on it!! The efferdent took them away.
If that doesn't help remove the discoloration. I have found the Efferdent tablets help remove a lot of the old "storage" stains.
I say white towel because I washed doll dress that was on my antique doll in warm soapy water then rolled it in a very old blue towe. That towel had been washed at least a hundred times. The organza dress had blue spots on it!! The efferdent took them away.
#25
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 9
Wouldn't it be great to make one more to then have 12 and make a lovely wall hanging. But then you could leave one out and use 9 on the front and have 1 leftover for a label. Maybe find some old fabric to make the sashing and borders and you'd have something very sweet to hang on the wall. I think it would be a very nice project. I would have loved to find this!
djb51 in CT
djb51 in CT
#26
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 9
Originally Posted by djbruno51
Wouldn't it be great to make one more to then have 12 and make a lovely wall hanging. But then you could leave one out and use 9 on the front and have 1 leftover for a label. Maybe find some old fabric to make the sashing and borders and you'd have something very sweet to hang on the wall. I think it would be a very nice project. I would have loved to find this!
djb51 in CT
djb51 in CT
#29
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Jacksonville NC
Posts: 6,510
I have had great luck washing on delicate cycle with powder dishwashing detergent with no lemon or scent, just the old cheap kind is the best. I let them soak for maybe an hour and wash as usual but I usual sew first and then do it to prevent unrsveling. I love your butterflies. Sash them and make pillows with left overs. Nice find!
#30
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bay Area near San Francisco
Posts: 1,213
Originally Posted by MrsBoats
There are 19 total. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them--I'm open to suggestions--but I couldn't bear to leave them there.
What would you do with them?
What would you do with them?