Need help--Dear Jane bleeding
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I agree with following the instructions on Vicki Welsh's site. She is a hand-dyer and did a LOT of experimenting and testing to find the best way of setting bleeding fabrics. I have used her method successfully several times for bleeding tops, it really works.
Here is a link to her helpful instructions:
https://www.colorwaysbyvicki.com/upl...edingquilt.pdf
Please note she specifically says to NOT use Retayne or Synthropol.
Here is a link to her helpful instructions:
https://www.colorwaysbyvicki.com/upl...edingquilt.pdf
Please note she specifically says to NOT use Retayne or Synthropol.
Last edited by Peckish; 05-24-2021 at 03:04 PM.
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I'd like to try to get the dye out as described in Vicki Welsh's site. Two questions: can it make it worse, somehow, and does the dye go to the top of the water in the bathtub and have to be skimmed out? How do you keep it from going back onto the quilt as you take it out of the water?
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I'd like to try to get the dye out as described in Vicki Welsh's site. Two questions: can it make it worse, somehow, and does the dye go to the top of the water in the bathtub and have to be skimmed out? How do you keep it from going back onto the quilt as you take it out of the water?
As far as the dye not being reabsorbed into the quilt - this is why Vicki recommends you use lots and lots of hot water. Imagine you make a pitcher of Kool-Aid. Now take that pitcher and dump it into a backyard swimming pool. After mixing, you wouldn't even notice a color change.
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Thank you all for your reassurances and understanding. I went for it this morning--I said to myself "I believe in science, and I believe that the soap molecules will grab the dye molecules, and float off of my quilt as Vicki Welsh said they would." So I filled up the bathtub with too much Dawn and water as hot as I could get. The result was a bathroom full of suds, which I bucketed out to the shower stall. Then blue dye emerged, I emptied the water and refilled the tub...less blue dye. I left it for a couple of hours, and lo and behold, the bad spots were gone from the quilt! I rinsed it in the washing machine, and my quilt is beautiful. This list always helps!! Really so great!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!