Please advise on spot dyeing with rit (black pants bleach spatters - oh my!)

Hey

I have touched up bleach spots on clothes using a permanent magic marker. Then touch the spot with an iron after ink is dried

Michelle I did the same to my favourite black jeans recently and was wondering the same thing... would the pen also work on jeans? (and not show up in black light?)

Michelle,

If the spots are really small, what about using a black Pigma permanent pen? They are made for fabric; quilters use them frequently.

Doreen in Alabama

Thanks Pat!

option 2 I have been contemplating was just bleaching the jeans and then dying them with a black dye - the thinking being that like this I would be guaranteed the same results all over instead of (possibly) lighter spots where the bleach spattered would this work?

Well, Jessamy, if the jeans are already ruined, there is nothing to lose! Have you thought of splatter bleaching and then over dying with a color other than black? Say, green? A retro hippy look.

Just remember that bleach weakens the fibers and the cloth will eventually develop holes.

PAT

Jessamy wrote:

lol Pat .. somehow I don't think so - the black is carefully chosen due to it's slimming effects ;-)

mind you.. these won't fit long enough to develop holes - I'm down several sizes since last year but thanks for the warning!

Hi, I am new. However, I have used a black Sharpie on a pair of dress pants and it has been a few years and never a problem. Good luck. :)

G'day Michelle

A couple of times this has happened to me, I've just put a couple of drops of dye on the bleached area...specially if they are only spots. Leave for the stated time in the directions and rinse out the excess. Marker pens are Ok, but not with black...at least that's been my experience. A dark green marker pen quickly faded to a very light green and not much darker than the bleach spot anyway.

Can you test on a seam allowance or some other inconspicuous area?

Not sure if the helps? Br> Hi everyone,

I probably could test on a seam, I have one of those bleach pens, thanks for the good idea! I am going to try a test, then if that works I will just spot dye. I really like these pants, and I only have the one suit, and I just got great news at work so I will need that one a few others! I am going to be getting a promotion, going from receptionist to insurance broker. I have to take a course and a test! YEY ME!

Ok, the bragging is over. I just had to....

Thanks for the tips, I will try that!

Michelle Giordano

I don't usually use bleach in the house except to get my whites white again once every 6 months (think kiddie stains) but this time I had a cat over for one night and it peed on the bathroom floor hence the use of bleach.

this is such a hard decision.. though the bleach did make pure white spots on my jeans.

Congratulations Michelle on the promotion! Barbara in SC and now FL

I use a knockoff version of Oxy Clean to do bleaching, and it works really well. For stubbornly stained clothes, dishwasher detergent also works well. They are both powders and not likely to ruin a dry garment if it contacts it.

Sharpie marker. Permanent, fine point, available anywhere.

Some years back I bought a piece of light-colored cotton with a colorful floral print. In one area the solid-colored areas were just tripes. To make the item I needed to use that portion, so I colored in the stripes with matching permanent marker from an artist box. Worked perfectly.

HTH

--Karen D.

Sharpies are not color fast on fabric.

Use dye markers. JoAnn (fill in other craft store (maybe even WalMart)) has them, and they're intended to be used on fabric. They're usually over by the fabric paints.

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@chartermi.net

"Jessamy" wrote in news:440ff507$0$60823$ snipped-for-privacy@news.wanadoo.nl:

bleach isn't the best thing to use on cat pee, especially not straight bleach. you just end up making ammonium cloride gas :p if you need to get rid of the odor & you don't have any enzyme cleaner, use vinegar.

which will become holes fairly quickly since it was straight bleach & not 10% solution... you can use Sharpie to cover them until the holes appear though. lee

I use permanent markers to go over the faded creases in my black and naving twill slacks when they fade after washings and wear. Sharon

Why not go over them with the black marker again? I would try that before throwing the pants out. Sharon