Janice,

I have not done either of these - but Googled it and found two sites that both say you need to do something IMMEDIATELY. Hopefully - one of these methods might work.

One says to - If you have time, rub liquid laundry detergent into the scorch mark and launder the item right away, using liquid laundry detergent and oxygen bleach, if safe for the fabric.
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/stain-buster/stains-iron-scorch-may07

The other site recommends hydrogen peroxide.

Tip #1: To remove a scorch mark from linen or white cotton fabric, dip a piece of old fabric in hydrogen peroxide, lay it on the scorched portion of the fabric, and rub with a hot iron (not too hot). If it doesn't work the first time, repeat until the stain is completely removed.

Tip #2: If you scorch cotton fabric while ironing, plunge into cold water immediately and let stand 24 hours. The scorched areas will disappear.
http://www.creativehomemaking.com/articles/123003c.shtml

Good luck! So sad when that happens.

Sue

Well it may be to late... I did this yesterday, so immediately is long gone. I thought maybe Oxi Clean might do the job. I hope to have the quilt finished tomorrow and plan to wash it. Hopefully I can figure this out. Thank you Sue, for trying to help.

Janice

I posted about using jel dishwasher detergent on a small area at a time rubbing it in well - being careful not to get the jel on any colored material - and brushing the jel into the fabric then wiping it off with clear water, blot dry, then hang to air dry completely.

Teresa

Here is my post:

This weekend I was in the mountains quilting with my round robin buddies and making the ribbons for our Sept. quilt show. I accidentally scorched my quilt blocks while pressing them and tried several things to remove the scorch marks. Then I remembered an old tip to whiten nylon under clothes: soak them in dishwasher detergent mixed with some water. I poured out a small amount of the gel detergent and rubbed it on the scorched places with a scrubby sponge. It started immediately to remove the brown scorch marks from the cream-on-cream fabrics in my project that I want to put in our show. The gel detergent has bleach in the formula! There is one small spot where the bleach lightened a dark red fabric adjacent to the cream fabrics, but it is hardly noticeable.
After rinsing the area really well, blotting it dry with a clean towel, and letting it air dry a while, I was able to press (on a lower heat) the area. No one will ever know what happened.

Teresa

p.s. I won a second place ribbon with the quilt mentioned that was scorched!

I did the same on some white blocks and it washed out when I soaked it in fabric bleach for colors.

I read a blog where someone did this and it left the fabrics slightly discolored in a few places. She colored over them with a white crayon and heat set them.

Hopefully you can get the stains out.

I soaked the quilt in water with detergent and Oxyclean. It looks really good, especially now that it's quilted. I doubt anyone but my husband and I would notice. Thank you all, for your ideas.

Oh and just an added note... Besides the new iron being so much hotter than my old one, I think this happened because I was heat setting writting that was done with pigma ink and got a little carried away.

Janice

I'm glad the marks faded enough not to be noticeable!

So glad it worked out okay! Thanks for the update.

Sue