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Stop the fabric bleeding
Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my
DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. -- Gina in IL http://www.webshots.com/user/dgelias |
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I don't know.... but dryer heat _sets_ stains, so maybe it would be a good
thing to dry it once to see how much of the dye will set before you try to get any more dye out of it. -- email: change the word cozy to cozyhomelife and change the word netscape to net Eli wrote in message ... Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. -- Gina in IL http://www.webshots.com/user/dgelias |
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Try adding 1 cup of white vinegar to set the dye.
Mary "Eli" wrote in message ... Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. -- Gina in IL http://www.webshots.com/user/dgelias |
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I have bought very expensive red fabrics, like Jinny Beyer prints that are
$16 a metre Canadian and I was never able to get the dye to stop coming out. I ended up using them with a nice assortment of navy prints so if they bled it wouldn't matter. I have heard Retayne can be used but is not 100% effective and RIT makes a similar product to set the dye and prevent it from running. I have read that red is the hardest dye to set. Sometimes the fabric is overdyed and that is what you see coming out, but I wouldn't want to risk a pink quilt if you decide to use it with white...........too bad because red and white quilts are very nice, reminds me of redwork which I like to do too! Mocha in BC |
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So I'll dry it - then wash it with vinegar and rinse twice. Hope it
works... Thanks, Gina in IL "Mary" wrote in message ... Try adding 1 cup of white vinegar to set the dye. Mary "Eli" wrote in message ... Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. -- Gina in IL http://www.webshots.com/user/dgelias |
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You want a product called Retayne that you can get from Dharma
(www.dharmatrading.com), but the truth is I keep washing until the dye stops coming out. I don't trust it otherwise. Have you ever wanted to play with fabric dyes? Get some white muslin and use the excess dye in your fabric to splatter the white fabric and make it pink. As for its being "good" fabric, I've never noticed that more expensive fabric or fabric from local quilt stores bleeds less than the other stuff. I just get a bleeder every now and then, not too often, and deal with it. --Lia Eli wrote: Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. |
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Oh, I'm assuming that you are washing it alone.... under those circumstances
don't waste any more of those little dye take up cloths. You are only dumping the water anyway. You only need them if you have other fabric (like a done quilt) in there and you don't want it to pickup on the other colors. -- email: change the word cozy to cozyhomelife and change the word netscape to net Eli wrote in message ... So I'll dry it - then wash it with vinegar and rinse twice. Hope it works... Thanks, Gina in IL "Mary" wrote in message ... Try adding 1 cup of white vinegar to set the dye. Mary "Eli" wrote in message ... Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. -- Gina in IL http://www.webshots.com/user/dgelias |
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Let us know if it does.
Mary "Eli" wrote in message ... So I'll dry it - then wash it with vinegar and rinse twice. Hope it works... Thanks, Gina in IL "Mary" wrote in message ... Try adding 1 cup of white vinegar to set the dye. Mary "Eli" wrote in message ... Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. -- Gina in IL http://www.webshots.com/user/dgelias |
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I had a navy blue someone in my guild had bought and I ended up boiling it
in on the stove in salt water and then throuhg the wash again and dryer. That worked ....but the lady before me had washed it in cold MANY times. -- Mauvice in Central WI USA remove no spam to reply "Eli" wrote in message ... Help!! I just got back from JoAnn's with 4 5/8 yards of red fabric for my DD's quilt. I prewashed it and the Shout Color Catcher came out bright pink. I am washing a second time and the rinse water is again bright pink. Is there something that I can add to the wash to stop the bleeding? Do I just keep washing until it stops? What if it never stops? It was $6 a yard (before the coupon) so I assume it's "good" fabric... Any and all advice wanted. -- Gina in IL http://www.webshots.com/user/dgelias |
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I think I read somewhere that vinegar doesn't work with the dyes in use
today. Becky |
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