There was a report on local tv tonight. Apparently environmentalist in the Humberside area are very worried about the decline of frogs and have so far found no explanation why this is happening. They obviously haven't met Rosemary's supplier of dried frog pills yet.

The dried frog pill sound like a good time!

Kathy - don't take this suggestion at all seriously - but how about dipping the whole quilt into blue dye and then you wouldn't see the turquoise running And if you wanted to take it a stage further, you could then play about with some discharge paste

This idea was brought to you from INSANE SUGGESTIONS R US

( Nurse, I think the dried frogs pills are wearing off!)

Lotti, I do remember about letting the Turquoise dye sit overnight for the dye to take. I thought I had rinsed and washed enough of the dye out but obviously not! And the other fabrics in the quilt didn't suck up the turquoise like this one did. I'm hopeful that this will work. But not holding my breath!
Kathy

kathyst2 wrote: Color Grabbers are like Color Catchers. Unfortunately, I have no experience with Color Run Remover.

kathy: i had a fabric dyeing course last fall and we were warned that turquoise 1. needs to proove much longer than most colors, and 2. takes a lot more rinsing than the other colors... when i did mine i certainly spent a lot longer on those rinses - but i think the color catchers did the trick - when i'm giving my quilt away i'm also giving another package of the color catchers with it - for those first few washes (although it has already been washed in the machine - with catchers - 4 times - the last time they ended up light grey - so i think we're OK

I've seen the Carbona color grabbers- are they similar to the Color Catchers? I used those when I washed my quilt- 6 of them turned bright turquoise! apparently there was a *lot* of extra turquoise dye in the fabric. This Color Run Remover is a powder that you mix with hot water and soak the fabric in. I was thinking that I would dab it on the squares, since I don't want to take all the turquoise out of the turquoise fabric. Can you tell I don't really know what I'm doing here? I'll try this in a couple of days. Kathy

I've been using Carbona Color Grabbers for a few years. As a very new quilter, I can only say that I've pre-washed very few fabrics so I can not say authoritatively that they work on every kind of fabric. However, I've thrown together very mixed groupings of colors in the laundry with a Carbona Color Grabber and nothing has run onto lighter fabrics and Carbona disposable sheets come out of the wash with a lot of color on them.

I found a product called Carbona color run remover, that is for removing dye transfer from laundered clothing. I am going to try it out on a sample, and then maybe on my quilt. I certainly cannot advise anyone to use this but I hope it works for me! It might work since the color is isolated in squares that aren't near the bleeding turquoise. I'll let you all know what happens.

I hadn't thought of trying Biz, is that a detergent with stain removers? I have never used it.

Kathy

Yes, I am a little afraid to use the hot water on the wool. I have some extra batting, fabric, etc and will experiment before I do anything with that king size quilt. Thanks Janet

This is what I would try, use Biz to wash this quilt and add some color catchers as well. I would try this before the hot water method. But that is just me. I love wool batting and the poof, however, you have to treat it differently that cotton or poly.
Carolyn

I'm trying a test piece with the two offending fabrics, seeing if I can get the dyes to migrate over to the yellow like in the real quilt.
Then I will try dabbing with cold water and synthrapol to see if it makes a difference. At least the turquoise and the yellow don't touch each other in the quilt. Or I may just call it a day and move on. I'm not going to soak the quilt again, it's been through the washing machine 3 times..... at least I know my quilting and sewing were good, it came through just fine.

when I wash my hand dyes, I generally let them soak in cold water for a while, then move them to the washer with HOT water and synthrapol. I think the turquoise was pretty intense and there was a lot of excess dye left after washing it. I will be more careful when using them from now on.

Kathy

cbear wrote: I'm sure that I also came across the information that it is not so much the quantity of water that you use, so much as the length of time that it spends in the water, which would come out as 1 tub of water over night is better than 3 tubs of water in 1 hour.

But I am pretty much a novice when it comes to dyeing & bleeding problems, I'll probably be having my own panics with my hst quilt soon - at least I know some of the possible solutions to the problems now

Kathy,
I don't know if what I do will work for you as everyone's water chemistry may be different, but this is how I handle fabrics, especially batiks and hand dyes. When fabric like that hits my water it just explodes with color. When I hand dye I rinse the fabric three times in hot water and at least two of the rinses have sythranol in it. I rinse that out in cold water. Then I rinse again in hot water with retayne and the final rinse and every wash after that is cold water. If you haven't dried it in a hot dryer, you may still have a chance. Good luck to you!