DeniseP

I just finished piecing a baby quilt with light blue and red flannels. I washed it before adding fleece for the backing and when I took it out of the dryer (about half dry) I noticed that the red had bled into the light blue fabric and now I have red dots where there used to be white dots. Is there any help for this? I rewashed it and let am letting it air dry.

QuiltE

Did you wash the fabric before you started to cut and sew?

PaperPrincess

Depends on how hot it got in the dryer. Often, once it's machine dried, the color is set... I would try Oxyclean. And don't dry it until the issue is resolved, or you've decided to go with the tie dyed look!

bearisgray

Did you wash the fleece, too?

I've found that different fleeces shrink at different rates.

AFTER I had sewn two layers of the stuff together.

DeniseP

No, I always wash the quilt top when it's finished.

DeniseP

Yes, I have already washed and dried the fleece. One less problem I guess!

QuiltE

Too bad you hadn't done it before all the work .... then you would have known what problems lay ahead! And could have determined whether you wanted to proceed with that fabric.

Or what you needed to do before you did all that work.

DeniseP

Yup. A day late and a dollar short, just like always.

bearisgray

At least it wasn't a king-size!

timepasser

Try washing again with a color catcher. a friend of mine accidently washed some red flannel with a mostly white flannel, you guessed it she ended out with a pink flannel. Anyway we ran it through the washer again with a color catcher and was truely amazed. You would of never know what had happened. Hers had not been put in the dryer at all first though. Maybe it will work even though it had been in the dryer Good luck