Thought y'all might enjoy this adventure in bleeding that happened to me just yesterday. Like Bear, I'm a bit leery of reds and I had this piece that I was most definitely going to prewash. These pictures show exactly why some of us really believe in testing/making certain are fabrics are stable.
This goofy panda print was in a bag of someone's tourist souvenirs, the sort of thing you'd pick up at a cheaper airport/tourist gift store, me I got it at the thrift store, it was full of some really nice stuff and this. The panel had been made into a skirt, just folded over into a casing but was still in its crisp cellophane wrapper when I got it. I have a pattern for some paper pieced Panda Blocks and I want to stretch them out by using these big panda families. I'll probably frame the black and white pandas in yellow which is another auspicious color.
Yikes! Look at that top dye catcher, now there is a small possibility that somehow the catcher from the previous day's black load (that discharged quite a lot) somehow got back into the washing machine but that is a very small possibility.
The second one, all I did was wash again with hot water and my usual gentle laundry detergent. Better but not done.
I took it to the sink, used a bit of dawn and rinsed until clear, then I did my 20 minutes covered with water in a large/huge glass bowl in the microwave. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap! I'm another believer in Dawn, and in that heat setting in the microwave.