| How did that stain appear? It just happens. One | | | | Use a cottonball or clean cloth to blot the stain with the |
| moment your project is clean and stain free. All of a | | | | peroxide. This will easily take out the blood. Rinse in |
| sudden,a drop of blood, ink or oil appears. What can | | | | cold water and treat again if needed. Another option is |
| you do to take out your unwanted stains? Try some | | | | your own saliva. Your own saliva has enzymes that |
| of the following solutions. | | | | will treat your own blood stains. I know it's not the most |
| 505 Spray Adhesive -- 505 is a wonderful spray | | | | appealing thing, but it does work! |
| adhesive to use when sticking my fabric to my | | | | What's the preventative action to take for this kind of |
| stabilizer when I am stitching machine embroidery | | | | stain? Just keep your fingers away from sharp |
| designs. But occasionally some of the adhesive gets | | | | objects! :) |
| sprayed on the fabric. Sometime it is caused by some | | | | Ink pen or machine oil -- Ink pens are all around my |
| residue left over from spraying too much on the | | | | sewing room and as hard as I try to keep them |
| stabilizer in the hoop. | | | | contained to one table, they tend to walk toward my |
| Use 90% rubbing alcohol (not the drinking kind :)) to get | | | | fabric. Machine oil will sometime get on my fabric after |
| 505 out of your fabric or project. The 90% is | | | | I have first oiled my machine. |
| important; not all stores stock that percentage. The | | | | Any oil based cleaner in your laundry cabinet will take |
| lower percentage bottles will not be as effective as | | | | out most ink and oil stains. I like to use Ecover Citrus |
| the 90%. Look for this in the pharmacy departments | | | | Cleaner & Degreaser or De-Solv-It; they both |
| of most stores. If you still cannot get the stain out with | | | | work very well with ink and oil stains. I will get the stain |
| the alcohol, try using Ecover Citrus Cleaner & | | | | out of the fabric with the cleaner and then wash it with |
| Degreaser. It's an oil based cleaner that can be found | | | | some soap and water to be sure I have removed all |
| in many stores or online. | | | | the remaining residue. There could be a slight ring or |
| To prevent this, always spray your stabilizer, not your | | | | shadow created if not all the cleaner is rinsed out. You |
| fabric with 505. Avoid spraying too much 505 on the | | | | can find both these products in many stores. |
| hooped stabilizer before sticking the fabric on top of it. | | | | Try to keep ink pens away from your fabric and |
| Blood -- Yes, I try to keep my fingers away from | | | | projects. Throw away any pens that leak or leave |
| sharp objects, but invariably a pin, needle, pair of | | | | blobs of ink. To keep oil stains to a minimum, sew a |
| scissors or rotary cutter finds its way through to my | | | | scrap of fabric through your machine after oiling it. |
| skin, drawing either a drop or a bucket of blood. When | | | | Keep sewing until oil doesn't appear on your fabric. If |
| I can't get my project out of the way in time, a red | | | | your machine sits unused for several hours or a |
| spot appears. | | | | couple of days, you may need to stitch on a fabric |
| Treat the stain right away with hydrogen peroxide. | | | | scrap before sewing on your project. |