??? How to spot clean quilt top
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Hi all,
I am hand piecing a quilt top with lots of white blocks. The quilt was getting bulky while sewing borders so I folded it and secured it with metal hemming clips. When I slid the clips off dirty marks remained. I don't want to launder the entire project before it is quilted. How should I remove the marks?
Thanks for advice, Genie
I am hand piecing a quilt top with lots of white blocks. The quilt was getting bulky while sewing borders so I folded it and secured it with metal hemming clips. When I slid the clips off dirty marks remained. I don't want to launder the entire project before it is quilted. How should I remove the marks?
Thanks for advice, Genie
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If it is dirt, I would put a little dish soapy water on a QTip and treat the white fabric. If it is on colours, I would wait and launder the whole quilt. If it is rust? Not sure how you treat that.
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If it's dirt, I've successfully removed spots by vacuuming them with a piece of old hosiery over the vacuum hose & then used a Tide Stick & a bit of water with a white washcloth. You just have to be super gentle. Tartan's idea of a Q-Tip is a good one. CLR will get rust out of fabric, but I don't know that I'd want to keep handling the fabric for so long after I treated it with chemicals. Perhaps you could soak it after the piecing is done if the marks are on the back of your quilt top.
Mostly I would leave it until you finish quilting it. And if you can't afford new clips, cut little snippets of fabric to wedge between your quilt top & the clips.
Mostly I would leave it until you finish quilting it. And if you can't afford new clips, cut little snippets of fabric to wedge between your quilt top & the clips.
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