Okay, I'm sharing these techniques Rachael Ray covered on her show "Fifteen-Minute Meal" but I'm not sure I'd ever use them simply because these aren't the kind of materials I have laying around.
The first viewer was a teacher who threw out half her wardrobe because of errant pen marks and marker streaks on her shirts. I've been there. I have a pair of pants that has a bright blue sharpie mark down the right leg I refuse to give up.
Kevin Christiana to the rescue! He says to take a design- a rose, a vine, something you like and get it xeroxed. Lay the paper ink down on the shirt, over the pen stain and then paint over the back with turpentine. As you paint the back, the design will show through the wet paper. Let the turpentine dry- Kevin says 10 seconds is all it takes- then peel back the paper. Insta-stain camouflage. If only I had turpentine hanging around, then I'd feel okay about trying this out.
The second viewer was a young girl who spilled grape drink on her dress. Kevin recommends tie-dying it with the same thing that stained it, in this case grape drink. He made up a packet of grape drink mix in a pan and then rubber banded the dress into a tube shape at random points. He says to leave the dress to saturate for thirty minutes, let it dry, rinse it, and then do it again. He also showed the audience that you could do it once with grape, let it dry, rubber band it a different way, and then use tropical punch.
It's an interesting practice and something younger peoples will enjoy, but again I don't have grape drink mix hanging around.
There was also a viewer who had a cigarette burn hole in her trench coat. He used Mighty Mend it to create pleats and such to cover and convert the hole. No mighty mend-it, no try.
Back to fusing plastics, I guess. :)
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