Firefly fairies/ bleaching fabric
Question:
I am curious about bleaching the fabric for this and also for Emma’s Garden. My LNS owner has been attempting to bleach the fabric for the Firefly Fairies, and has yet to be successful. She even went out and got a metal mixing bowl and a brand new bottle of bleach. The only thing that happened was the fabric got rust spots on it from the bowl. I don’t think that was the desired outcome! Has anyone else been successful, and if so, what did you use? Mandy
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Has she tried using Rit color remover instead of bleach? I once tried to bleach some pink linen and it didn’t work. Don’t know why, but you might try the color remover.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I am curious about bleaching the fabric for this and also for Emma’s Garden. My LNS owner has been attempting to bleach the fabric for the Firefly Fairies, and has yet to be successful. She even went out and got a metal mixing bowl and a brand new bottle of bleach. The only thing that happened was the fabric got rust spots on it from the bowl. I don’t think that was the desired outcome! Has anyone else been successful, and if so, what did you use? Mandy
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I’ve had a great time bleaching for Firefly Fairies! I’ve done two yard so far and am about to order a third. There is a scan on my site that shows one of them. It’s spoken for – I have to get another batch bleached so I can put up a new scan. Kim am curious about bleaching the fabric for this and also for Emma’s Garden. My LNS owner has been attempting to bleach the fabric for the Firefly Fairies, and has yet to be successful. She even went out and got a metal mixing bowl
and Come see the Firefly Fairies Fabric Scan! <http://members.aol.com/fabrics2u/fabric.html
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Has anyone else been successful, and if so, what did you use? Mandy
http://members.aol.com/fabrics2u/index.html Kim at fabrics2U has done a GREAT job with bleaching of linen and has a scanned picture of a piece. Check it out!!!!! Mj in southern California Big 3 sites for newbies http://www.dnai.com/~kdyer/ online stitchers "bible" http://www.crl.com/~dmcmahon/ where the abbreviations live http://powerup.com.au/~sheal/freebie2.html tons of freebies
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o bleach the fabric for the Firefly Fairies, and
I am bleaching fabric for my LNS (work there one day a week) for Firefly Fairies and even the first one was breath-taking! No secret — just follow the directions exactly – be sure flat-base bowl is STAINLESS STEEL. That may be her problem — unwanted chemical reactions if not SS. And rinse, rinse, and rinse. Using 18 x 27 32 ct Cobblestone. Also did test on smaller piece of Dirty Linen — equally striking! My shop owner is now going nuts thinking of the possibilities on other fabrics with other designs. Can’t wait to try Emma chart fabric.
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o bleach the fabric for the Firefly Fairies, and I am bleaching fabric for my LNS (work there one day a week) for Firefly Fairies and even the first one was breath-taking! No secret — just follow the directions exactly – be sure flat-base bowl is STAINLESS STEEL. That may be her problem — unwanted chemical reactions if not SS. And rinse, rinse, and rinse. Using 18 x 27 32 ct Cobblestone. Also did test on smaller piece of Dirty Linen — equally striking! My shop owner is now going nuts thinking of the possibilities on other fabrics with other designs. Can’t wait to try Emma chart fabric.
That’s exactly what I hoped would happen (loud clapping noises) I can think of 50 designs that would be more spectacular with the added misty background. I thought it was fun to see what the bleach did. If it came out too bleachy I just bleached the whole piece. Maybe I should do a design for the color fabric you get when you bleach the whole piece? hmmm always new possibilities! Marilyn
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