Here follows a Cautionary Tale.
Seven o'clock Monday morning it went into the washing machine together with all the colour catchers I had. Five of them - a whole packet.
50 minutes later ... Oh dear!
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| very darkafter I wash cycle without detergent |
Colour Catchers all dark blue, label dirty grey instead of off-white, yellow stars smudgy.
8 o'clock and the local supermarket doesn't open until 9:30 on Mondays. But when it did I was there. Armed with a new packet of Dylon colour catchers (5 per packet) and two packets of Vanish Colour protectors (20 per packet) I furiously cycled home.
Reloaded the machine with quilt and 5 Vanish protectors.
50 minutes later:
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| still dark after the second wash cycle |
Reloaded the machine with quilt and another 5 Vanish protectors.
50 minutes and 15 colour catching protecting cloths later.
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| good enough after 3 wash cycles |
The last batch of colour protectors were just pale blue, but the label is still grey.
Moral of this tale:
A narrower than usual single-bed-sized quilt with a lot of dark blue batik needs at least 15 colour catching protecting cloths in it's pre-use rinse.
Linking up to Quilt Matters for Thank goodness it's finished Friday, so hop over there to see what others have finished this week.
Happy Sewing
Marly.
3 comments:
Very interesting. I've never used the colour catchers - in fact I've never seen them in the supermarket, but they may be there. I've just never looked for them. But I have thrown out fabric that kept running even after 3 or 4 washes.
Your grandson's starry quilt looks very good!
Oh my.... that is a tale! Glad you were able to soak up the blues though!
Whoa, that's a lot of colour catchers! So glad they worked in the end. Beautiful quilt, Marly. The colours remind me of Van Gogh's Starry Night. Thanks for linking up to TGIFF!
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