clsurz

I had never heard of color catchers until I came on this board.

I was thought to always sort clothes out by white, light, medium and darks and wash them accordingly so that's what I do with my fabric and have had no problems with anything bleeding over into another piece.

IMHO if you follow the rule of thumb mum thought me you can't go wrong. Wash whites by themself, lights by themself, mediums by themself and darks by themself.

Ever since reading about color catchers in your laundry I've not been able to wrap around my mind how can it do that and still not spill over into the fabrics already in there. If it gets caught by this color catcher surely some of it still goes into the other pieces in there.

Judi in Ohio

Here's another Judi that totally agrees with that. I use color catchers, but never just one. A quilt is a lot of fabric. I'm going to try unbleached muslin - that's the fabric thjey say will suck up dyes. But I depend on my color catchers and disagree with their testing at CR.
Judi

Mkotch

I have one quilt that, after many, many washes, still bleeds red, and I have noticed that even the red thread has bled. I doubt if a color catcher would have helped, but I am ever optimistic so I keep pre-washing batiks and reds with them.

BellaBoo

The statement: they did catch color. But they didn't catch all of it.
That means to me to use enough to catch all the color. So they do work. What's the problem?

Sew and Sew 2

I used them with a navy flannel backed quilt when I washed it. Colors didn't bleed onto the other fabrics and the sheet seemed to pick up everything that was expected. Use them if you feel confident in the product or take a chance and don't use them. At least something is available now that wasn't available several years ago.

katiebear1

I think they are great. If I have a quily with a lt of deep colors I just use two instead of one.

Landers

I agree with you. i will still use them. They have not fail me yet. Yesterday I washed Gold bedsheets with Burgundy pillowcases together. The sheets were pink and no red spots on my gold sheets!!

rosiewell

I have been using them for years. I brought them back from Italy every summer, they work great for me!

Bibliogirl

My grandmother taught me to add vinegar to the wash to set the color. I have always done this with new fabric individually by color if I think the color might run. It seems to work. I have tried the Shout cloth which did absorb color, but I think the vinegar works best. If I have a small piece I put it in a small tub with vinegar water instead of the washing machine. That way I can rinse it several times without using so much water.

klgreene

I'm still using it. I just washed a quilt that I knew had to bleed because I actually had the color on my hands from working with it so much. So I threw in 2 color catchers and they were both stained. But my white on the quilt was fine.