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#12
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Location: Horse Country, FL
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Edited to add:
OH, yes...it should be put together first...othrwise you will have a real mess. Retroclean took ouot large coffee AND tea stains that had been washed and pressed 30 years ago!!
#14
If the stains are not terribly large ones try working with a Tide stick, not my detergent of choice, but my life saver stick when it comes to quilts. Keep one at my machine, cutting table, etc. haven't found anything yet that I could not remove. Recently removed red ink that had bled from a price tag.
#15
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
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If you put each one on point, you can make a quilt with 13 blocks. Top row is 3 blocks. Row 2 is two blocks centered. Row 3 repeats row 1. Row 4 repeats row 2, and row 5 repeats row 1. Makes 13 blocks.
Rows 1,3 and 5 are three blocks. Rows 2 and 4 are two blocks. You can put narrow or wide sashing strips with cornerstones or not.
Lay them out and see what you think.
Have fun.
Rows 1,3 and 5 are three blocks. Rows 2 and 4 are two blocks. You can put narrow or wide sashing strips with cornerstones or not.
Lay them out and see what you think.
Have fun.
#16
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 4,783
Hand soak the blocks in a sink before putting any work into them. I use Restoration, which is made for vintage textiles. Hand rinse and line dry. After you get the stains out, then applique/mend where needed and put them together into a top. Never wash a quilt or top in a washing machine with agitation (only use it to soak and spin out). Never dry a quilt in a clothes dryer with heat. Never dry clean a quilt.
#17
I washed some vintage blocks and some turned out OK and some didn't. My rule for me is to only wash if I couldn't stand to touch them or they smelled so bad I could not work with them. I would repair them first though.
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