what if#86: discharge with soft scrub

kim made a comment over at spirit cloth and i thought what if i try that?
....and to quote her:
I am going to be playing with a stencil and puffy paint and then also I wanted to suggest for one of your what if's- using Soft Scrub with bleach on a stencil. ( like a stencil with a smaller design- more intricate
Iron some freezer paper to wrong side of fabric you want to stencil.
Spray stencil with adhesive.
fix to fabric.
then take soft scrub and squirt some blobs on to stencil edge.
Use something stiff like a credit card or a Spackle knife to drag a thin layer of soft scrub over stencil.
Put in sun for 15 minutes
scrap off soft scrub and then rinse in warm water.
a friend who does the same technique with puffy paints on stencils (that she makes) suggested using the soft scrub (cause its thick) when I told her about my bleach experiment.

the results were fantastic. the shape came out hard-edgeed and clear. i think the credit card squeegee worked great.  i didn't leave it in the sun i just let it dry. and the snowflake stencil was just cut from freezer paper and ironed on indigo yarn dyed cotton. (yes, there are some moons there too.)
maybe this what-if blog should be a challenge ? challenge me. PLEASE. thank you kim!

Comments

[Acey]

best possible use for a credit card. Those moons are quite compelling, too.

[laura]

Wow, Jude! That looks like a lot of fun, with so many possibilities. I still think back on your discharged black corduroy weaving, and wonder how you dissed it. Did you pour or splash bleach on it? That photo intrigues me. I love the shadows created by morning and evening sunlight-buildings, from barns to skyscrapers; trees and bushes, with their different shades of yellows and greens; and the sides of mountains. (The only shadow I don't like is one from a cloud, unless it's during a soccer game on a 100+ degree day!) Anyway, that's what your #75 reworked patchwork reminds me of.

Laura

[laura]

Wow, Jude! That looks like a lot of fun, with so many possibilities. I still think back on your discharged black corduroy weaving, and wonder how you dissed it. Did you pour or splash bleach on it? That photo intrigues me. I love the shadows created by morning and evening sunlight-buildings, from barns to skyscrapers; trees and bushes, with their different shades of yellows and greens; and the sides of mountains. (The only shadow I don't like is one from a cloud, unless it's during a soccer game on a 100+ degree day!) Anyway, that's what your #75 reworked patchwork reminds me of.

Laura

[Jenna]

That looks great Jude! This would be fun to do with my kids as a next step from making snowflakes. Very cool idea.

[calamity kim]

I am glad it worked for you! I am going to try it too! I love silhouettes and am cutting some from freezer paper to try. I think this would work with the plastic lace place mats like I did my bleach experiments with too! I'll have to think up some more experiments for you- Have you rusted any fabrics yet? I use jingle bells and vinegar in a metal coffee can with water and set it outside with no lid for a while. I wrapped the bells in linen and muslin scraps and let it go- check every day. Rinse very well.

[Pintinhopiu]

I love your blog, your fotos and your work.
I love quilts but i have no patience to do that!...
Excuse my poor Englih, but I"am foreigner... I"m from Portugal. Do you know where it is?
Congratulations for yuor blog.
Teresa

[Nancy]

I tried something similar using a Clorox bleach pen, and wasn't terribly pleased with the result (instead of white, the bleached out places were a pale rusty red). This looks much more promising--thank you!

[jude]

sorry for coming so late in reply, laura, i sprayed the bleach on the corduroy discharge and nancy, sometime the color you get from the dicharge depends on the way the fabric was dyed. many fabrics are dyed one color over another for marketing reasons and sometimes the top color is removed off the surface and the other remains underneath. also sometimes black will discharge to red....