Twisted Quilter

Okay ladies, I found my bottle of Retayne and proceeded to wash all my red fabric. EVERYTHING is red, even the little white design on a few pieces. What do I do now? Rewash and throw in a couple of color catchers or do these pieces go in the trash.

QuiltE

Did you follow the instructions?

Twisted Quilter

Yep, followed the instructions, even read them twice. Fill tub w/hot water, add 1 tsp. of Retayne per yard of fabric, add fabric and wash for 20 minutes.

dunster

Retayne sets the color. It's meant to be used on solid fabrics, not on prints, although I don't know whether that particular bit of information is stated in the directions. I don't think there's anything that will remove the red.

Sewnoma

Don't dry it! That'll set the color more than it already is.

You can try Synthropol, and/or just wash, wash, wash, wash, wash the piece(s) that have the bleeds and see if that helps. If the dye came loose once, there's a chance it'll do it again! Definitely try rewashing a few times before throwing it away - it can't hurt! The Retayne might have set it for good but you won't know unless you try - you might get lucky.

Lori S

The Retayne will be removed if you wash it again in warm to hot water.. and yes use syntropol to get out the dye that settled in white areas.

Prism99

Retayne is removed in hot water, so you should be able to wash again with Synthrapol (which uses hot water) to remove the unwanted dye.

PaperPrincess

Do you have a top loader or front loader? Need to treat fabric in a bucket or laundry tub because there's not enough water in a front loader.

Twisted Quilter

I don't have any Synthropol. I'm on my 4th washing and a 1/2 box of color catchers. Some of the red did come out of the white but not all. Whatever I end up with after this washing is what I'll have to deal with. I think I found one of the culprits which I removed, but no matter what, I'm done.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

snipforfun

Synthropol is meant to release excess dyes in hand dyed fabric. Retayne is for commercially dyed fabric.