What to Do with Fabrics that Keep Bleeding Dye
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I've used fabrics like this to "dye" pieces of white or bleached muslin that I can use in other projects! I paid for that dye, I might as well benefit from it.
Jan in VA
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Don't keep washing it over and over, that just wastes water. Simply put it in plenty of hot water, toss in a couple of color catchers and leave it overnight. I have successfully treated every single bleeding fabric this way.
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After 20 changes of water that was still brightly colored, I discard the fabric if I can't return it.
I will try to return it to the store if I still have the receipt. Sometimes the clerk tries to give me static, but I consider a bleeder to be defective.
I will try to return it to the store if I still have the receipt. Sometimes the clerk tries to give me static, but I consider a bleeder to be defective.
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I don't mind - overly much - washing a fabric a couple of times to get rid of excess dye.
However, a fabric that bleeds indefinitely really ****** me off.
I feel that there should be NO necessity to further treat a commercially dyed fabric to stop it from bleeding.
However, a fabric that bleeds indefinitely really ****** me off.
I feel that there should be NO necessity to further treat a commercially dyed fabric to stop it from bleeding.
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Now that is very interesting! I guessing that just because a fabric bleeds into the water doesn't necessarily mean other fabrics will pick up the dye. Seems like a good test would be to wash scraps of all the fabric in the quilt and see what happens?
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