Originally Posted by
carol45
I'd like to try to get the dye out as described in Vicki Welsh's site. Two questions: can it make it worse, somehow, and does the dye go to the top of the water in the bathtub and have to be skimmed out? How do you keep it from going back onto the quilt as you take it out of the water?
As I said before, I've used Vicki's technique several times. I've never had a project get worse, it
always gets better. And no, the dye does not float to the top and you can't skim it out. It's dissolved in the water, like Kool-Aid.
As far as the dye not being reabsorbed into the quilt - this is why Vicki recommends you use lots and lots of hot water. Imagine you make a pitcher of Kool-Aid. Now take that pitcher and dump it into a backyard swimming pool. After mixing, you wouldn't even notice a color change.