Originally Posted by
MarLeClair
I bought 1 2/3 yards of a material while I was on a shop hop last week. I needed a red for borders on the quilt I am trying to finish. I tested it but there was no bleeding but decided I better wash it anyways. Boy did it bleed, the color catcher wasn't even pink, it was red. The manufacturer is STOF Quilters Basics Style #4518A. I can't remember the shop that I bought it at since I hopped through 11 stores. It kills me that I spent money on something that I can't use and now I probably don't have any recourse. I looked on line and I think it might be an oriental manufacturer. Material is sooo expensive now anyways and we have to pay the price if we want to quilt, but what about inferior material? Any suggestions?
Wash the red again with some scraps of the other fabrics in the quilt. If the other fabrics come out of the wash without picking up the red dye then the bleeding is not a problem. It really doesn't matter how much that red fabric bleeds if nothing else picks up the dye in the wash.