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If the spots aren't too large I think covering them with a Sharpie would do it.
If they are bigger, I would applique over them. If the backing is a small print cut circles out and applique them over the spots or if there are large images in the print cut them out as appliques.
Fabric Pen/Sharpie or Applique - It's a creative designer OOOPS I meant it to be come out that way! :)
On my Sharpie packet it states "not for fabric" so I would be careful with Sharpies. But there are plenty of fabric markers you could "update" the spots with. If the spots are too big, I would also vote for applique. I wonder if applique wasn't invented because someone made a booboo a long time ago,
I'll post a picture in a bit-I'm at the grocery store lol. I was thinking mixing up some rit dye and trying to spot it in by the fabric marker seems like a better option.
The first picture is the worst of it. There are several small spots spread throughout the quilt back, but it appears this corner got the brunt of it. Its weird, because only the greenish color bleached. The blue dots inside the bleached area are still blue.
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Applique is really an option-I'd have small little applique patches randomly across the quilt back, and my label is stitched into my binding.
I think the fabric marker or dye is my best bet. I bought some Kelly green dye, so I am going to test it on a scrap piece of the backing to see how it looks.
Otherwise, I get a new quilt for the couch and I get to make another for the cousin.
Make it a Tie dye backing, lol, use some more bleach, here, and a bit of dye there and all of a sudden "special hand dyed fabric" is on the back.:icon_heh:
or more bleach to make it look uniform
See what happens when you watch Honey Boo Boo?
Hon, I'd just leave it. If you try to match it. you take the chance on making it worse. If you try to add bleach spots to the rest to balance it out, you risk ruining the front. I'd leave it, and consider it a wink to keep you humble cause it was too perfect maybe?
These things happen. It really is a nice quilt. It could grow on you.
Wow, I don't know what I would do if this happened to me. I am sorry about your situation and really hope it gets resolved.
I don't think they are that bad. As time goes by with washings that back will lighten more anyway.
It happens to the best of us.. and you couldn't be an idiot if you tried. Not even watching Honey Boo Boo would do that to you!