Showing posts with label color catchers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color catchers. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

How many color catchers do you need?

If you were going to wash this quilt, how many color catchers would you need?
Here's the back:

This quilt has already been washed at least once.  It is a twin sized quilt.  I thought 4 color catchers would be overkill, but they aren't expensive,and I had 2 boxes of them so I threw in 11.  This is what they looked like:

It is obvious from the pinky purple color that it wasn't just the reds in this quilt that ran.  The blues don't seem to be colorfast either!  I expect this from batiks but not for regular quilt-shop quilty fabric.  The good news is the excess color is on the color catchers not on the quilt.  But if I had known so much color was going to bleed, I would have added a few more.

How many color catchers do you need?  More than you think!