Help! Red material
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Help! Red material
I have a quilt top that I embroidered some lighthouses on white material. I bordered it with red. When I was ironing it some of the red came off on the ironing board. I took a piece of red scrap and put it in some water, first without soap and then with, and swished it around - rung it out. No color came out. Can I trust that and leave the red borders or should I change to a different color? I don't want the white squares tinted red. :-)
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I washed a Bear Paw quilt last Saturday, for the first time. The quilt has a white background and each of the bear paw blocks is made with a different red from Moda's Crazy for Red by Minnick & Simpson and one of those reds in the backing. I used four Color Catchers in the wash and while all the Color Catchers came out medium pink . . .not a speck of color transferred to the white background. Yes, I was sweating bullets waiting for the machine to stop LOL.
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Thanks for the reminder about Synthrapol. I am working on a bee challenge where we swapped several fabrics and one of them bleeds. I thought I might have to throw the challenge away. With the synthrapol, I may have a chance.
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