And Squiddle and I made some sugar cookies this afternoon during Jazzy's nap!
Also, remember that probably 1950s quilt top I got for free at the Orange Grove Quilt Guild meeting last month? I finished its soak in Oxyclean, rinsed it several times, and hung it to dry in the shower while the rain poured outside:
The Oxyclean did what I hoped it would. The age stains disappeared, and the more egregious marks also for the most part vanished. For example, this stain:
Was reduced to this:
Miraculous, no? However, there was one loss. This block:
Well, all the color vanished from the fabric, and all that's left is this:
I'm trying to tell myself that it would have happened during washing of the finished quilt anyway. No other blocks were affected. This was a free quilt top. It's not museum quality by any means.
But I need to decide is I'm going to leave it as is now, or find a suitable fabric and replace the block. Thoughts?
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