I had this Log Cabin Quilt top in the back of the closet for 20 years. I discovered one of the fabrics in it bleeds. So I washed it with Retayne in the washing machine on the gentle cycle and skipped the agitation cycles. The photo is of it after it dried. I've got to decide what to do next.

It's beautiful! I take it you got all of the bleeding out? Quilt it!

Beautiful top!

The quilt is beautiful! So glad to hear you removed the bleeding.

Someone once told me years ago to add a spoonful of regular salt to the water when first washing fabric to prevent colors from bleeding. I've done it ever since and it has worked every time. Anyway, just something I thought I'd pass along.

Very pretty. I see no bleeding, so your efforts must have paid off. Now to finish that UFO, huh?

Can't wait to see how you finish that beatiful UFO!!!

It's beautiful! Can't wait to see the finished product!Log cabin is one of my favorites - my grandmother made us a log cabin quilt for our wedding 33 years ago.

It's just beautiful!! Great job. I love log cabins.

Send it to me!!! I love the colors and will give it a good home!!! :thumbup: :D

I think you are very lucky.

Retayne works well to set dye in a single fabric, but I would never advise using it to wash a quilt or quilt top. If a dye bleeds in the wash, Retayne will set the color permanently into every fabric it bleeds into.

For an already-made quilt, it's safer to wash in Synthrapol. Synthrapol suspends unset dye particles in the water so the particles are rinsed away instead of settling into other fabrics.