I saw an idea, decided to try it, and probably won’t do it again, but at least now I know! I wanted to try to make this little baby quilt look more vintage by over dying the fabrics before putting them together. So I boiled up some water, added tea bags and soaked each piece to give it an aged look. (Every time I stirred the tea and fabric in my huge soup pot with my long spoon I felt like a witch with a cauldron over a fire!)
It turned out cute, but I’m not in love with the effect. I ended up washing it and trying to remove some of the tea, and thankfully that worked. For some projects this idea might be OK but, for my part, I think I’ll stick to just using the fabric as is and let the normal years of use do the aging 🙂
(This quilt has been sold.)
Ann Walsh Quilting 