From experience--When using hydrogen peroxide make sure you rinse afterwards with water to remove the offending product or it will just remain in the fabric, just spread out and leave faint edges where it then dries.

To remove blood just apply hydrogen peroxide with a Q-tip!

Patt Blair has the results of an interesting experiment on testing marking removal products on her blog.

http://pattsart.blogspot.com/2011/02/testing-marking-removal.html

Mary Ellen's Stain Removal Formula 2 sounds like it might be worth having around. I wonder if it works on blood, for those times we prick the fingers & don't notice we're bleeding ;-(

I knew not to iron but didn't know to rinse then use soap. When i have used the blue marking pens I couldn't get them out. Was told at a guild meeting to use orvus first. I guess I thought that was the rule in general. Thanks for your help.

Margo wrote: Definitely soaking in cool water is the ticket. Soap and any form of heat can set many things that can be removed with cool water. I have used the Crayola washable markers extensively for gridding counted cross stitch on Aida fabric and sometimes have to rinse it a couple of times until the water runs clear.

Margo wrote: Thank you! I have a quilt marked now with the markers. Thanks for the timely refresher. I was concerned that I was going to have a mess when I laundered the quilt. Once again, you are a life (or should I say "quilt") saver.

Hi Margo,
Thanks for that reminder, about rinsing first. I have been working on samplers with the markers, and I had been rinsing them, just because they are simple blocks. But I wouldn't have thought of that with my completed quilt.

Kathy in CA

DO NOT USE SOAP FIRST! Soak the quilt in plain cool water first for about 15 minutes then spin all that water out.

Then you can launder as usual.

I used a green fine-line Crayola washable marker on a baby quilt recently to mark for quilting lines. The quilt was a fine pink/beige stripe and pink/brown flowers for "windows". My quilt had numerous green marks under my quilting thread! I wonder what I did wrong? I used warm water and orvis soap to wash after quilting. Any ideas?

My Wal-Mart doesn't stock Sta-Flo starch but I discovered that Fred's carries it in quart size bottles. Guess items stocked varies from state to state.

Beth,

The fabric I was printing, was with the Inklingo piecing shapes, so they were on the back of the fabric and it won't matter if they wash off, now the bag is made up (see on my profile bright green & reddish batiks).

I do have some samples of starched & printed fabric for checking for washability, but they are in a safe place at the moment, waiting to be washed . One is starched from one side, and another from both sides. I will try and remember to post my results, when I find them.

Rosemary

BethMI wrote:
YES! The starch sort of forms a barrier preventing some of the printer ink from getting into the fibers of the fabric, and it will all wash away.

You can use this information to your advantage! If you mark your quilting lines with a graphite pencil (instead of some kind of ink), they will easily wash away! In fact I marked a heavily starched whole-cloth baby quilt, and there were no marks left at all after it was laundered!

Rosemary, Thank you for that info, it helps alot. I had been spraying the fabric, then as i was already soaking wet, I ironed it immediately. I didn't realised that leaving it to soak would stop the flaking. I did try Margo's suggestion of spraying the fabric, letting it dry, then steam ironing it. That worked fine. Thank you for your help.

Rosemary -

I would be afraid that the printer ink would stick to the starch instead of the fabric and then be washed off with the first laundering.

Have you tried washing the fabric which you starch well and then send thru your printer?

Have the printed areas held up well to laundering?

BethMI