My gold has turned green!
#13
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Illinois
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I love metallics. They literally add sparkle to the piece! I've used a lot of the silver and have had no problem, even on quilts for my grandchildren and those get laundered routinely. All that I've used have come from WalMart or JoAnn's over the years. They may not look as good as the original but they seem to have stood up as well as the other dyes.
#14
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,165
Some of the older fabric with metallic does keep for quite a while. I have a jacket with crazy quilting using some of the earliest fabrics (over 20 years ago) with metallic. The gold on the fabric is OK, the metallic Sulky embroidery thread changed!
I also decorated my own fabric with Pfaff Maxi stitches on a 1475 since there wasn't much of the gold highlighted fabric available at the time.
I also decorated my own fabric with Pfaff Maxi stitches on a 1475 since there wasn't much of the gold highlighted fabric available at the time.
#16
One of my first quilts was made from a kit containing lovely name-brand, Asian-themed fabric. Gold metallic "ink" was featured in most of the printed fabrics. Now, after several washings most of the gold is gone and on one fabric it has turned a greenish "patina"! Has this happened to anyone else? The photo shows the worst of it.
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 225
Is this the only piece of the fabric that turned green? If so, I am wondering if a stain remover or direct concentration of detergent is responsible. I can't tell if your background color is brown or black but if it wasn't colorfast, it could still be bleed through.
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