Bleaching

There was an interesting article in the latest edition of 'Quilter's Newsletter' about using fabric which you don't like or is out of date. One of the suggestions was to bleach it. The article showed a brown fabric which turned an attractive shade of marigold yellow after bleaching. Since I have been sewing strings to make yet another Mile a Minute quilt, and have found lots of dreary brown strings in the bottom of the box, I thought I would give it a go.

Here are the strings ready to be transformed.

And here they are after their transformation.

Rather similar, you'll agree. Apart from a few which have gone green, and others which have turned grey (both reactions which I think I would have emulated, had I been immersed in a bleach solution!) the majority of fabrics look the same. I suppose it's a matter of trial and error, and it was worth a go, but I think some of them will be finding themselves in my charity rags bag in the near future - there's only so much brown a girl can hide in a scrap quilt!