Exactly my thought. :)

lemon juice and sunshine??? if that doesn't work, I would go with tea dye.

I don't have any suggestions, but wanted to say that the fabric is one of my favorite white-on-whites. I buy a few yards whenever I see it. I ought to just buy it by the bolt.

I may have been the one who started a thread about scorched fabric a few months ago. I got good suggestions, hydrogen peroxide is the one I tried. It helped a little. I decided just to finish up my quilt, as this was a small quilt I was going to put on the seat of my sewing chair. I was just going to sit on it, after all, so I figured it would be okay. (I really was very gentle with using the hydrogen peroxide, as I didn't want to remove color from my other fabric.)

Anyway, when I finished and washed the small quilt, the scorching went away. I hope that is what happens for you.

Dina

Okay, it was my thread....and, if I did it right, this should take you to it. I have forgotten the other suggestions, and they might help you?

Dina

http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...c-t229063.html

try rubbing a freshly cut lemon over the darker spots and leaving the block in the sunshine till they dry. acidity in the lemon does a little bleaching of the fabric and sunlight helps it along but without the chlorine that can damage the fabric.

Try soaking the block in Oxiclean I have done this with aged blocks and they came out fine. Do soak them in a sink and rinse in a sink and let air dry. It would be worth a try. Beautiful block and a wonderful job of construction.

That doesn't look to me like a scorch mark. Try hand washing just one of them and see what happens.

Have you thought of doing any applique such as flowers and leaves??? There must be someone on the board that would be delighted to get these blocks. My church group loves to take discarded blocks and make quilts for those less fortunate. I have taken swap blocks that guild members no longer want and with a little fix here and there, the quilts have turned out pretty good. These blocks were all different sizes. Sorry, this is the only picture I could find on my computer...

It might have just been a dirty iron? I use a lot of spray starch and about once a month I need to clean the sole plate.

I've 'heard' you can pour some salt on a piece of waxed paper and iron over it but haven't tried it.

What I use is Dritz iron cleaner. comes in a tube like toothpaste.
I cut a 6" square of cotton batting, fold it up (3 layers,to keep the cleaner from going through to the ironing board cover) then squeeze a line of the iron cleaner out on the roll.

Drive the hot iron back and forth a few times, you'll be amazed at how dirty the cotton batt gets :)
Pitch the dirty batt and go back to pressing your brains out!