Experiment: Can I trust color saturated charms? Result #1: Yes.
An experiment. This piece was made for the sole purpose of seeing if I can trust unwashed color saturated charms. Using a solid white background made it as challenging (for the charms) as it can get. The white was prewashed. (I prewash ALL my fabric, so it makes me crazy to not be able to apply this to charms.) It was washed in a short 4 minute, cold water, delicate cycle--and put through the rinse cycle twice. I added one Shout Color Catcher. I dried it on high heat. Ta-da! The Color Catcher had no color caught that I could see. We can trust them. Just in case someone else was wondering... I'm sharing the news.