Most all my quilts are gifts to others, I have yet to make a quilt for my own beds to date. I've been giving a couple "color catchers" with instructions how to use them with every quilt so they should have no problems when they go to wash them. For those quilts that are queen size and their machines are not large enough to handle them, I've offered to wash them at least once for them. This way I also know if there is a problem with colors bleeding as I don't wash my fabrics but I do starch them so bleeding will occur then and I can take care of the problem.