Journal Quilt Challenge: Discharging Colour from Fabric by Judy Fairless Judy Fairless shows us how to remove colour from fabric... Using thick household bleach and some very simple equipment that you’ll probably have lying around at home you can produce some really exciting fabrics. ‘Discharging’ means removing colour from fabric, rather than adding it with dye. This project is an extract from Popular Patchwork magazine first published in August 2009. It is a Digital Edition and comes as a downloadable PDF file.