Nammie to 7

I had a piece that was washed with Synthropol but it never did quit bleeding -- then the color was pretty drab, that fabric went into a stuffing for a dog bed.

Jan in VA

I've used fabrics like this to "dye" pieces of white or bleached muslin that I can use in other projects! I paid for that dye, I might as well benefit from it.

Jan in VA

Peckish

Don't keep washing it over and over, that just wastes water. Simply put it in plenty of hot water, toss in a couple of color catchers and leave it overnight. I have successfully treated every single bleeding fabric this way.

DOTTYMO

Just shows how prewashing is essential so our quilts are not ruined by a bleeder.

KwiltyKahy

Great idea.

WTxRed

I had some fabric that bled a couple of times. I cut a square of it and a small piece of the white and washed with a color catcher - the white picked up nothing so i moved forward.

Homespun

Wow, I wasn't ready to give advice, but loved all the advice I read.

bearisgray

After 20 changes of water that was still brightly colored, I discard the fabric if I can't return it.

I will try to return it to the store if I still have the receipt. Sometimes the clerk tries to give me static, but I consider a bleeder to be defective.

bearisgray

I don't mind - overly much - washing a fabric a couple of times to get rid of excess dye.

However, a fabric that bleeds indefinitely really ****** me off.
I feel that there should be NO necessity to further treat a commercially dyed fabric to stop it from bleeding.

Stitchnripper

Now that is very interesting! I guessing that just because a fabric bleeds into the water doesn't necessarily mean other fabrics will pick up the dye. Seems like a good test would be to wash scraps of all the fabric in the quilt and see what happens?