I’ve had to use this method several times because I prefer quilts with bright colors on a light background. I’ve always used a bath tub and I have a spray nozzle on the shower head. The spray nozzle works great during the rinse phase. Longest I’ve spent doing this is three days….but it works!
I worked in a fabric store for 30 years, and I learned early on, to always prewash my fabric. A lot of times, there were all kinds of “things “ - both living and dead- wrapped up in the fabric. Thanks for this episode !
I had to used this process on a completed quilt. It took about 6-7 hours and a few tubs of hot water, but all of the colour was only where it was supposed to! Thank you for sharing
For lack of a tub, I use a rectangular storage tub in my shower. I am still working on a quilt on which the black bled all over to leave peach cottons gray. . . . Thank heavens for Costco-sized containers of Dawn!!
Thank you for saving me from heartbreak! I just finished a quilt that will be a bridal shower gift and even though I used two Carbona Color Grabbers, some of the dark colors bled into the white background. I don’t have any Dawn Ultra but I have Palmolive Oxy dish detergent. It worked!! Now I can finish up and wrap the gift knowing there aren’t any blotches of color where they shouldn’t be.
It worked Kim! I made a table runner with red leaves on a cream background and some of the red bled when I was pressing seams (with steam). I had quilted and bound it then tried your technique. I was pretty worried when my water turned quite red, but did 3 hot water/ dawn soaks then a couple cold water rinses and it came out perfect! Thank you!
Thanks for this video! I have a quilt with blue bleed and I have washed it several times with color catchers and it’s still there although some better. I may be too late since I have already washed 3 times, but it is worth a try! Can’t hurt anymore than already is. I swore off plain white fabric after the blue bleed. Maybe I can go back to white background again! ❤
I just purchased a red fabric and plan on adding it to a quilt with other fabric. I wanted to wash it with Retayne to prevent bleeding and preventing is easier than fiddling with bleeding or synthrapol…..my question is must I wash all my other fabric that will go in same quilt?
If you wash one fabric, you should wash all of the others that you'll be using in this project. When you wash the cotton fabric, it will shrink a bit so if some if washed (preshrunk) and others aren't, there may be a different look to the project when it is quilted. Having said that, I'm sure that the difference won't be that noticeable so the choice is really up to you. Oh boy, here come the quilt police!!! 🤣
There is a great download from Rob Appell on these two products and you can find it at mansewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/retayne-synthrapol.pdf.
You absolutely can do this. This particular video is to help to get out colour bleeding when you haven't already pre-washed your fabric (which would avoid that colour bleeding!). I like to use Shout colour catchers.
Question what is dawn? I’m in Western Australia and not sure what dawn is thanks might need a substitute,I have a quilt where the grey seems to have bled
This is Dawn Ultra dish detergent. I'm not sure if other brands will work but you could try. Check in the Description area beneath the video for an Amazon link (hopefully this will come through for you in Australia).
