Originally Posted by gal288
As a hand appliquer, I am always jabbing myself and getting blood on my blocks.
I was told years ago that your own saliva will take out blood. It works, on new blood anyway, not sure on dried.
I usually immediately wet the spot with my saliva, and wash in cold water. Presto, the spot is gone.
Don't know if it will work for you, try wetting the spot with cold water, then your saliva, wait a couple of seconds and then wash again, repeat if you need to.
Hope it works, let us know for future reference.
DITTO - I only learned this trick this year by accident from one of the quilters in our group that is older than me, I'm 66, so she isn't terribly old lol. She was hand quilting at our group and pricked her finger, I told her I would get her a wet cloth to get it out and she told me about the saliva. It actually worked, I couldn't believe it but I saw it. I've tried it a couple of times since and bingo the blood was gone. I don't know how it would work since the blood has dried on the quilt but it's work a try.