Jingle

I'm glad it worked out for you.

QM

Hurray for you! Pix please?

Battle Axe

I have used the color catchers for several years while dying fabric for my rag rug business and been amazed at what they can do. Oxyclean is also good. In my experience, you can't put too many color catchers in the washer.

On another note, Bootsie and Mittens have cornered a mouse and had great fun catching it and letting it go. The last time they did that it got away. I helped them disable it this time. I have my boundries.

Marcia

twinkie

Would love to see pictures. Did you take before and after?

tessagin

Would love to see photos. I am always leery of using washers at the Laundromat. have to definitely take a cloth with cleaner and wipe the washers out before use just to see if there is any residue from previous user. I have wiped mechanics oil residue and other stuff out of those washers. So just be careful when using those.

BuzzinBumble

So glad you saved the quilt! Now that we are spoiled and have our own washer and dryer, I'm a bit leery of laundromat machines too. Like Tess said - you never know what has been put through them right before your load. Once in a while though we need those super big washers. So with something precious, we just run through a load of old dog bath towels first to clean up the machine.

MargeD

Glad that worked out for you. Now I can tell my daughter how to get a few mildew stains out of the one and only hand quilted quilt that I made for her in grade school. Since she is unable to have children now, she wants to give it to her niece as a family heirloom.

ccthomas

I wasn't so lucky. My experience - stains did not disappear; some quilted sections now need requilted, binding frayed (not sure what shape it was before I washed and dried the quilt.) I did try washing the quilt first in the bathtub but it was too heavy for me to manipulate. It did hold together and is sitll beautiful though.

cr12cats

hooray, glad it worked for you. got me thinking i should check on my grandmas quilt from 1964 that has been packed away. I have been thinking I should repair it but haven't had a place here to lay it out to see if I can.It was made with a electric blanket with the wiring taken out for batting and all hand quilted. I think that will be quite a job to work on.

Auntie Em

That is so great for you!!! Would love to see a picture!!!