The last thing I do before I give a quilt away or use it is run it though the washing machine, in warm water, with a couple of Color Catchers. (I also include a box of Color Catchers with every quilt I gift.) For this quilt, since it was so dark, I used Woolite detergent for dark fabrics. I use it for my black jeans and slacks. It is reputed to keep your darks dark, so I used it for the very dark Deep Space quilt.
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I did a Christmas quilt recently from precuts. When I washed a small throw size quilt I added 6 color catchers since as precuts I did not precast. The color catchers came out either bright red, saturated purple or just a mess but all 6 were completely colored and had done their best. There were no true whites left on the quilt. I decided no more saturated precuts and absolutely no reds.
Wondering if you do not like to use Retayne to keep colors from bleeding? I have used it, but wondering if there is a downside I don't know about?
Dark blues and reds run the worst. Still a surprise to see how dark those Color Catchers are on pre-washed fabric! (It's a beautiful quilt, too.)
I learned a big lesson recently with a scrap quilt I made using fabric I was given. There were a lot of reds. I did not wash the fabric before I made the quilt, then I washed it with 4 colour catchers. The neutral border became a stripe of pink and neutral patches! I washed it again, using a product designed to remove colour runs and the pink certainly was lighter as a result.Fortunately I was quite happy with the overall effect, but I will know next time!
Great idea to use color catchers! Love the bunny (fabric?) on the wall next to the washer!
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