I had an interesting experience today. I had made a few pillow presentation cases for Quilts of Valor, and I washed them since they want the quilts/cases laundered before presenting them to veterans. I put in two color catchers as a precaution since there was some blue. Much to my surprise, the blue fabrics were fine but one of the cases has a bright yellow print. Guess what, the color catchers came out yellow! Luckily, they did not bleed onto the white fabric sections.

I am prewashing fabric tonight and had two pieces of pretty teal fabric and both of them bled like crazy. I always test all my fabrics in the sink in warm water before washing them in the washing machine. I soaked both of these and rinsed them several times and am still having trouble. I don't have any products mentioned in the house but might try the vinegar tomorrow. I've had enough for tonight.

I had some fabric I was using for borders (bright red) for a quilt fora wedding gift for my nephew. I tested the fabric and discovered the "bleeding" by putting a small strip in a glass of hot water! Well, I looked all through Ocala, Florida, but found nothing in stock in the stores. Then, I went on the Rit Dye website. Rit has a dye setter product, which is not expensive, but which definitely works. I ordered the product online. and used it as directed. It works. I don't have any ownership interest in this company or anything, but I won't hesitate to recommend a product which works. I re-tested the red fabric after it was treated and it works! I won't do a quilt and put that much work in it without treating it! As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Jeanette Frantz

I use a lot of green, teal, turquoise . I needed backing soooooo went to the lqs and prewashed the TEAL and my nightmare began,even using Retayne it lost most of the color. I was so glad it was not on my quilt but it was beautiful on the bolt.We live and learn,sometimes the hard way. MIMI

you can use synthrapol on brown fabric and it still ran alittle --- make sure you both and that no more color is coming out.. I have a very dark blue that bled it use the retayne let is soak and then synthrapol and it stopped bleeding and bled alot.