sewnclog

I recently quilted 2 quilt tops for a friend made by her grandmother; 50's type fabric; looked to be made from mens shirts, pajamas, blouses, anything they had back then; both had a 'smell' about them; probably from being folded up for over 50 years? Anyway I gave her some retayne cause there were stains on both of them.

applique

I agree, it should remove any excess dye not adhered to the fibers. Be sure you use a washer with enough water volume to suspend and discharge the excess dye. I washed over a hundred yards of woven red and white cotton fabric to set the dye and had no problem.

Onebyone

I don't have any advice for bleeding fabric. I'm the one that tosses it after the second wash and it still bleeds. There is always another perfect fabric out there.

bearisgray

The color may be perfect - but if the fabric is a bleeder - why subject yourself to the possible problems if you used it?

Dolphyngyrl

I think retain sets dye, and syntrapol suspends dye in water so you use retain before you cut and sew fabric and syntrapol when quilt is already made

applique

Sorry, I know I used both on all the washing I did and thankfully it worked! Otherwise I would have had a ton of unusable yardage.








Retayne FIXES dye to fabric and should be used in cases where you are concerned that a fabric dye may bleed. Use Retayne as directed, as a pre-wash or before putting suspect fabrics into a quilt. Synthrapol is a special detergent that suspends dye particles so that they do not reattach to fabric.Apr 12, 2012

KalamaQuilts

make the project smaller and make it a wall quilt? Seems like a more practical use of a favored fabric and will be finished sooner win win

fabricholic

I come across those every once in a while, I always test reds with a color catcher and if it does bleed I just get rid of the fabric so that I never chance using it in a quilt. I always error on the side of the side of caution.