Originally Posted by Prism99

Absolutely do *NOT* use Retayne at this point! It is useful only to set dyes in yardage and at this point it is too late to use it on your red fabric.

What you want is Synthrapol and ***lots*** of water to dilute the bleeds as much as possible. I use the largest front-loading washing machine at our local laundromat (as long as you are sure people don't wash horse blankets in it), hot water, and Synthrapol.

Finish the quilt -- finish the top, layer, quilt and bind -- before washing in Synthrapol. Trying to wash an unquilted top or unquilted blocks can result in a huge mess if some of the fabrics shrink and distort, plus you can get a lot of ravelled seams. Once the top is moderately quilted, batting controls fabric shrinkage (no fabric can shrink more than the batting shrinks) and you no longer have exposed seams that can ravel.