I think I’ve mentioned once or twice on here and on the Vetty Creations Facebook page that I’ve been working on stitching some butterflies for a magazine project. Its been a delightfully restful project that has been something that I have picked up from time to time when I’ve a spare minute.
The other day I devoted the day to stitching on it. I hadn’t had the chance to work on it for more than a week, and when I pulled it out of the bag I’d had it in, I was not pleased to find that the lines of the butterfly patterns that I had drawn on the fabric had faded away to a mere nothing…
Oh dear.
I was using a washout marker because the project is a curtain that is more a fashion item than anything else, so wouldn’t need to be around for longevity. But because the curtain is 100% polyester, the marker never soaked into the fibres, and obviously there has been enough rain over the last week for the moisture in the air to make the lines disappear.
So take this as a warning: if your ground fabric is basically plastic and doesn’t actually soak up anything, it won’t soak up a washout fabric marker either.
Lesson learned.
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
oh, that’s a bugger!
I’ve had that problem – with a twist. The lines disappeared, but when I washed the embroidery, they came back!
It took an hour of soaking in stain remover to get rid!
Well, fortunately I have already washed it and they stayed gone!