Virginia gave me three bolts of fabric she detested. I gave one bolt to the Tuesday Quilters, who make donation quilts exclusively. As each one came in, last Tuesday, they touched the fabric and said, "Oh, this is really pretty." One woman's pretty is another woman's detestable. They were thankful for the lovely detestable fabric.
On Thursday, I cut the remaining two bolts into one-yard pieces and surged the raw edges. Half of them, I washed, dried, pressed and folded. The other half, I sprayed my bleach water on each piece before placing them in the wash. They came out with a little less of the pinkish in them. Photo above: left is original fabric color; right is after a little bleach spray and wash.
I held back a couple yards so I could experiment with over-dying. Photo above: left is the original color; right is after I dyed it with Rit Sunshine Orange dye. I sat in the backyard stirring my brew like an old witch. I like how it came out. I dyed 1/2 yard. I, also, want to try overdying with red Dy-na-flow to see how that comes out. All that washing, drying, pressing, and folding, then stirring plumb wore me out. I will further cut the one-yard pieces down to half yards, so I can give a half yard of original and a half yard of bleached to each of my Unruly Quilt Artists at our 'Dying Day", in June.
Question: How many yards were on the two remaining bolts?
Answer: Seven on one and eight on the other. Fifteen total.
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