During the PSQG Chit Chat night on Zoom the subject came up of whether to prewash or not. Penny, showed us her box of Dr. Beckman's Colour Catchers which she bought at London Drugs and highly recommended them for dealing with fabrics that are likely to run in a quilt.
I had so many blocks left over from my Zig Zag quilt that I decided to do a test and put it through a wash cycle with some Colour Catchers. I stitched up the sample below as well as the corners I had cut off from the quilted quilt. I wet them all and before long all the purple/magentas had wicked onto the adjacent light blue. I then washed them all in the washer with two Colour Catchers and it worked. The Colour Catchers actually had streaks for the purples and blues from the batiks but nothing was showing on the samples. Now that I feel a little more confident that I won't ruin the quilt I think I should probably wash it to see if the Colour Catchers clean up the stained area.
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| No staining or bleeding along the seam lines |
I like the idea of a sample wash. I should do that with the floral quilt.
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