quiltnutt

I have been using a 100% cotton white terry cloth hand towel. This works great. The "old catchers" that I use to buy was a white terry towel. You do not need the soda ash.

If it a new quilt with a dark color,I use BLUE DAWN soap and a dye fixative,yes it works. I put the soap on the terry towel,use cold water only and wash on reg cycle. I have a front loader machine. The excess dye floats in the water and when the quilt is in a top loader for some reason the dye attaches to the quilt. The front loader the dye does not float.

For the first wash I would take it laundry mat and use their front loader machines. when you take the quilt out of the machine and you see any dye run off..wash it again with the soap and cold water. DO NOT DRY the quilt til all dye has been removed. It might take 2-3 washes.This will work