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    Mchelem is offline Senior Member
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    I made my JRR top, added borders, found the perfect backing, quilted it with gorgeous thread and bound it with diagonal stripes cut on the bias and brought it home to wash. Dumb dumb me didn't check the washer before I put the quilt in and there was part of a bleach tablet in the drum that was undissolved and well, you guessed it.....several bleach spots on the back of the quilt.

    Is there anyway to fix this mistake???? I was going to give the quilt to my husbands cousin as a late birthday gift but I am not sending it looking like it does. I could honestly kick myself!!!
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    oh no!!! Bleached out the color? Nothing I know of hmmm DARN I'm so sorry!!!!! Is the backing a solid color? Maybe do a "spot" dye really carefully? ugh I would probably make him another one since they are pretty quick, but hope someone comes along who has a better idea :-)
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    Are there just a few spots? Could you do some kind of applique on it to cover the bleach spots? That's all I've got to offer, sorry this happened to you after all that work.

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    I was just going to suggest adding some theme-related applique too. Have you done your label yet? Could that possibly cover the spots? Better an odd placed label than a ruined quilt. Good luck.

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    Applique to cover the bleach spots really is your only choice. Will take more time, but you could turn that mistake into something extra special!
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    A sharpie? (And I know that sick feeling you get with mishaps like that. So sorry to hear of yours. I think the appliqué might work or you could give it as is with a "funny story" about the one of a kind back!)

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    Thinking of some of the things that can wind up on a baby blanket, I would just go for it. As I tell some, it's a design element. What a feeling you must have had when you saw this . . .
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    Show us a pic if you can with the color of the back showing and some of the bleached spots. Someone can come up with a clever solution. You could try using some diluted dye to touch it up if the spots aren't too big. You might use some paint pens and create some sort of design ontop of the spots. If you have extra fabric of the backing you might write meaningful words on that and place those to cover the spots and applique them down. Good Luck.

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    I just made a chennile quilt and cut through the backing fabric 4 times. I made circles out of similar material and just appliqued them on. I would try that or any other design would work.
    Sorry this happened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by a1angiem View Post
    A sharpie? (And I know that sick feeling you get with mishaps like that. So sorry to hear of yours. I think the appliqué might work or you could give it as is with a "funny story" about the one of a kind back!)
    I've fixed several bleach mishaps with a Sharpie. They come in every color imagineable.

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