My mom made a beautiful table runner. She marked it to quilt it and when she was done quilting, she sprayed it with water to remove the blue markings. Her fabric ended up bleeding when it got wet and ran into the white fabric. Is there anything she could do to get the color that bleed into her white out of the white? Also, I was just reading on the site about Retayne. Let's say that you put a quilt in the washer to treat it with Retayne and some of the fabrics bleed, will the Retayne stop them from bleeding on the other fabrics while it's in the washer being treated? Any help will be much appreciated. :-)
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Retayne will not stop the initial bleed,but sets the remaining dye so that it doesn't bleed again after the first wash.
If you didn't prewash a project and you're worried about bleeding, use Synthrapol...(SP?) it acts as a color catcher! :) |
Originally Posted by Charlee
Retayne will not stop the initial bleed,but sets the remaining dye so that it doesn't bleed again after the first wash.
If you didn't prewash a project and you're worried about bleeding, use Synthrapol...(SP?) it acts as a color catcher! :) |
no, synthaprol is to WASH, retayne goes in the RINSE
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Originally Posted by Dreaming
Originally Posted by Charlee
Retayne will not stop the initial bleed,but sets the remaining dye so that it doesn't bleed again after the first wash.
If you didn't prewash a project and you're worried about bleeding, use Synthrapol...(SP?) it acts as a color catcher! :) Retayne *sets* dye into fabric. That's why you would never want to use it in a completed quilt; it would permanently set any bleed. Retayne needs to be used on a fabric before it is used in a quilt. |
Dreaming, this also happened to me with a lap quilt. I initally washed the quilt. The hot pink ran onto the white & light pink. I found the Spray & Wash color catcher sheets at the grocery store with the laundry supplies. Washed the quilt again (it had also been dried) this time with the color catcher. It took all the pink out of the lighter colors & now the quilt looks like it should. Good luck. If you can't find the color catchers just PM me & I'll mail you a couple.
Joyce :-) |
Originally Posted by Prism99
Originally Posted by Dreaming
Originally Posted by Charlee
Retayne will not stop the initial bleed,but sets the remaining dye so that it doesn't bleed again after the first wash.
If you didn't prewash a project and you're worried about bleeding, use Synthrapol...(SP?) it acts as a color catcher! :) Retayne *sets* dye into fabric. That's why you would never want to use it in a completed quilt; it would permanently set any bleed. Retayne needs to be used on a fabric before it is used in a quilt. |
synthropol is the stuff you need to put in the wash to keep migrant colors from getting on other items/fabrics in the wash
try some oxyclean in the wash to get out what bled, but i have really never had any luck saving what had dye run on. good luck. |
Originally Posted by mimiknoxtaylor
Dreaming, this also happened to me with a lap quilt. I initally washed the quilt. The hot pink ran onto the white & light pink. I found the Spray & Wash color catcher sheets at the grocery store with the laundry supplies. Washed the quilt again (it had also been dried) this time with the color catcher. It took all the pink out of the lighter colors & now the quilt looks like it should. Good luck. If you can't find the color catchers just PM me & I'll mail you a couple.
Joyce :-) |
I had that problem with a quilt and soaked it in Biz detergent and then washed it in Biz and all the misplaced dye came out. It was a miracle. I thought the quilt was ruined.
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