I have a bunch of green fat quarter and quarter yards for my boyfriend's quilt. My Winding Ways templates came in so I figure now would be the time to wash all these quarter fabrics.
I'm washing the fabrics by hand to get rid of any excess dye and then maybe putting them all into one load in the washing machine for good measure. So I start off with two batiks I know are going to bleed (I've never washed batiks before). Sure enough when I soaked them they leeched excess dye. Put in a tiny bit of laundry soap and started washing by hand.
But no matter how much I scrub and rinse there is STILL dye leeching out! One fabric isn't doing so bad and only turns the water just a slight tinge of green, but the other is still making the water turn a light blue. Seriously, how much extra dye can ONE fat quarter hold?!