Using most of a bleach pen and about a dozen color grabbers I was able to remove about 75% of the yellow dye migration and 90% of the green dye migration stains from the vintage double wedding ring quilt. It's still shedding dye, believe it or not, although not as much as it did during the first laundering.
I do have to stop trying to remove the dye now, as a few of the more fragile pieces of feedsack in the patchwork are starting to wear from the exposure to bleach. This is why chemical treatment is so dicey with older quilts. I've also created a bit of repair work for myself.
Honestly, I don't mind. The quilt looks a hundred times better than it did, and I feel like I did my best to rescue it.
1 comment:
Looks great though I agree, maybe it's time to not continue. I do see a bit of fading of the original pieces as well and that would be from the bleach pen residue in the wash water. You did a good job though!
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