After the water has drained away in the tub, check the top to make sure there are not any bleed spots.(if you have bleeding refill the tub and add colour catchers,hand agitate making sure the colour can come out into the water rather then tranfer to other fabric, repeat until water runs clear) If it looks good, lift it out of the tub AFTER you have a spot ready to dry it. I like the spread a clean sheet on my clean garage floor and spread the quilt out on it until dry. Some people use a clean sheet on the lawn but pick a shady spot if you do that. Some people pop an antique quilt in the dryer but you run the same risk with the tumbling as the agaitation in the washer.