One of the many exciting things about this Thanksgiving was finally using my wedding linens. :-) Providentially, I'd received two white linen tablecloths with a lace crocheted edge as well as matching napkins, and they looked so pretty when the table was all set! We should have taken a picture.Of course, Thanksgiving means cranberry sauce, and in our home this year it also meant blueberry pie. Stains are inevitable.
My Grandma Smith knows how to get just about any kind of stain out of anything. Growing up, if Mom, Heidi and I were befuddled over some particular stain, I remember Mom suggesting that we call Grandma. Her advice for fruit stains was "boiling water."
It works! That funny-looking picture above is of my kettle pouring boiling water onto our linens in the kitchen sink. It works so well that I thought I'd share.
I still don't know how to keep my favorite white flour-sack dish towels white. I'd hoped that soaking them in bleach would help, but some have rust stains now that just don't seem to come out. Any suggestions? Or perhaps I should call Grandma Smith and see how much she remembers. :-)
So would this work on a toddler shirt covered in orange stains? Cause Aleyna had an orange last night and now her white shirt is orange down the front.
ReplyDeletePraying for you as you near the birth of your little one!
It does work! My mom used to use it for berry and pomegranate stains, too.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had something helpful for the rust and am waiting for the day when we have a clothesline so that I can try to use sunshine to whiten what bleach won't remove. :)
Praying for you two and Baby Girl!