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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-20-2007, 07:46 AM (1 of 34)
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I've got the blues and I'm not talking about the kind I heard at the BB King concert a couple weeks ago. I bought some beautiful tussah silk. It was natural and brown with a few blue slubs. Very blue -- electric blue -- slubs. I decided to give it a quick prewash because silk washes well but I wanted to be sure the finished product wouldn't shrink. Oh, Yeah, the washing instructions said "dry clean only" but I knew better. Poped it in the gentle cycle in cold water. Well it came out nice and soft and BLUE. Those few little slubs ran and turned the whole thing blue! Not a little blue either. It looks like someone threw up blue snow cone all over it! I could just cry -- after I get done kicking myself in the butt. Dorothy 
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From: dmoses
Date: 03-20-2007, 08:23 AM (2 of 34)
I'm so sorry, Dorothy... This won't help now, unfortunately, but have you ever tried Color Catcher? Here is a review on Epinions. http://www.epinions.com/content_136822754948 It may be useful to keep some in the laundry room... I haven't tried it, but I'm thinking I should have some on hand... Take care,
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-20-2007, 10:10 AM (3 of 34)
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I'll have to try it. But who would have thought those tiny slubs had so much blue in them? Dorothy |
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From: MissTaraTara
Date: 03-20-2007, 11:13 AM (4 of 34)
| I've used color catcher for a long time, and it does work very well. There was once a product by Woolite called dye magnet that I found on closeout at the dollar store. I can't find it anymore so I use color catcher instead. I did hear/read? a quilter say that you can get the same benefit for free by tossing a clean white washcloth in the washer with the load. Haven't tried that though. |
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From: Sancin
Date: 03-20-2007, 02:45 PM (5 of 34)
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I use both colour catcher and and towels, though not at the same time. When I couldn't find the dye magnet I bought a package of white bar towels. It worked very well. The advantage to the towels is that you can actually see the colour that came off the fabric whereas the colour catcher tends to turn a grey colour. You can reuse the towels forever and can reuse colour catchers. I bleach the towels after they have caught dye, to that next time I can see if it works. When I am drying 'iffy' fabric I throw a towel in the dryer as well and sometimes even more dye comes out. You may still be able to rescue the silk, Dorothy, if you haven't ironed it or got it warm in some way. Wash it again using a colour catcher sheet (and put a white towel in for good measure). The blue may not have actually set into the fabric. Check the instructions on colour catcher as it may say only use in hot water. I would rewash the fabric as you did the first time. Good luck and let us know what happens. We have all done this at some time or other - usually with red!! *~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-20-2007, 02:49 PM (6 of 34)
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I was considering a second try. I don't think it could get worse. I'll get a color catcher first then give it a try. Dorothy |
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From: Patty22
Date: 03-21-2007, 07:40 AM (7 of 34)
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Hey Dorothy.........Miz Smurf......... what was it you were saying to me about quilters?..... something along the lines that we're a crazed lot? ..... I think you should take the fabric and make a quilt making a political statement. Let's see, the fabric is BLUE..... hmmmm..... what kind of political statement could you make?? 
Patty
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-21-2007, 09:38 AM (8 of 34)
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I shoved it in the back of the closet for now. It makes me sad. And I believe it is insensitive to make a political issue of something so tragic and emotionally scaring. From now on I shall only discuss it in private with no transcript! Dorothy |
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From: Patty22
Date: 03-21-2007, 07:56 PM (9 of 34)
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I love you Dorothy. I will come visit you and we'll get your blue fabric and bring it "out of the closet" together.
Patty
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From: lendube
Date: 03-21-2007, 09:46 PM (10 of 34)
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Wow, you guys.........I'm like so touched........ Such support, I think I'm going to cry....... Lennie 
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 03-21-2007, 10:40 PM (11 of 34)
Dorothy my husband has pink tee shirts tonight and for the life of me I don't know where the pink came from. I'm still looking I guess it may have been something he put the shirt on top of in the laundry basket but I didn't see it as I threw it in the washer. Oh well he's had pink under ware before and wore them with pride.  Sorry you lost your nice fabric but maybe you can save it with one of the Beatles songs, "with a little help from your friends." Maybe that's it you are listening to the wrong genre. 
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 03-21-2007, 11:38 PM (12 of 34)
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My husband actually has 3 pink and 3 blue t-shirts... they were bought white (Jockey) but the first time they were washed, they turned colors...and no they were washed with all white...so it's something in the process that did it...they're weird..(they're also only 6 mnths old and are going in holes already...I didn't think it was the season for cotton moths...  )
Chrys
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 03-22-2007, 12:37 AM (13 of 34)
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They sure don't make things like they use to that's for sure. I find that most of the fabric they make clothes with aren't of good quality as they were a few years ago. I usally buy Fruit of the Loom that's his favorite but lately I've bought Hanes because the fabric is much thicker I find. When I buy clothes lately I've rinsed them in the sink first before I wash them with a load of clothes because you never can tell if they will fade. So that's why I was surprised that I find a white tee with pink tint to it now. 
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: lizzybugsmommy
Date: 03-22-2007, 05:47 AM (14 of 34)
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Dorothy could you get some RIT dye and dye it to a color you would like?
Catherine
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-22-2007, 07:39 AM (15 of 34)
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Here's the fabric http://www.voguefabricsstore.com/store/catalog/VF066-02-Aztec-Tussah-p-4045.html Check out the price. I really cant afford to just buy more. Patty can come over and kick me in the butt and remind me of my last "you can wash silk" crisis. Dorothy |
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From: temom
Date: 03-22-2007, 10:49 AM (16 of 34)
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Yup, those are blue slubs allright. I sure wish I had an answer for you, but I sit here looking at my daughter's favorite shirt that was ruined by a green t-shirt. The fact that my favorite rugby shirt hangs next to it, a victim of that same shirt doesn't help me any. I feel for you. Theresa
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From: Patty22
Date: 03-22-2007, 03:13 PM (17 of 34)
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Dorothy, no kicking you in the butt.....I'm sitting here crying; I'm thinking of how many months of pocket change in the washing machine and pennies picked up on the sidewalk it would take me to buy just one yard. I'll have to bake you some poppy seed bread and we'll have coffee together. Patty
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-22-2007, 10:50 PM (18 of 34)
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I could sure use some of that bread. It is so good. She brought me a loaf, guys, but once my husband found it I didn't get much! Give me a call, Patty. I want to take you for one of my favorite rites of spring toward the end of next month!! Dorothy |
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From: Sancin
Date: 03-23-2007, 01:44 AM (19 of 34)
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Dorothy - Your fabric is really lovely. That is the price of most of our fabric here, even cotton. I think dye and remover may damage the fabric and one never knows what colour one would get in the long run with a fabric with several colours. Silk is VERY easy to dye, which is probably why the dye ran! I still think you should try rewashing it. If it sits in a box or closet for awhile the colour may set, as it would if ironed or in the dryer. Some dyes even call for leaving fabric for suggested periods of time for the dye to set. You could try visiting Dharma (dyes) web site. I seem to recall that you can ask them questions. They seem to know everything about fabric and colours. Good luck!
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: bridesmom
Date: 04-03-2007, 01:29 AM (20 of 34)
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I'm feeling sad for you D, that was beautiful fabric! Hopefully some day you will think of something you can use it for. Did it at least color evenly? Makes me wonder, if you would have made something out of it and worn it and got hot and sweaty, would your bra turn blue? or your skin?
Laura
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From: Brenisback
Date: 04-03-2007, 04:59 AM (21 of 34)
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Oh! that hurt's!! no wonder your so upset ! Try the towel Dorothy.
Brenda
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-03-2007, 07:40 AM (22 of 34)
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Makes me wonder, if you would have made something out of it and worn it and got hot and sweaty, would your bra turn blue? or your skin? I was going to make a jacket so I wouldn't have to worry about the bra but rain might have been a problem. Dorothy |
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From: MaryW
Date: 04-03-2007, 09:32 AM (23 of 34)
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Dorothy, I once read about a woman who washed silk in the washing machine. It puckered and changed dramatically both in texture and colour. She was just sick about what she had done. She let it sit for months. Then, she took the fabric, pressed it, embroidered a vine/flower bud in an allover design and made herself a jacket. It was a really lovely jacket.
MaryW
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From: MaryW
Date: 04-03-2007, 09:36 AM (24 of 34)
I forgot to add, if we had silk at that price we would think we had died and gone to fabric heaven. Ours is twice that price and more.
MaryW
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From: bridesmom
Date: 04-04-2007, 09:59 PM (25 of 34)
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Amen to that Mary!
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
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From: Judi
Date: 04-07-2007, 04:45 PM (26 of 34)
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It's beautiful material, and not pricey either, in my experience here. I recently got black raw silk at twice the price and was glad to get it.
Judi
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From: fabricgriffin
Date: 04-15-2007, 05:03 PM (27 of 34)
| I use color catchers all the time, especially when I was new fabric - like those wonderful batiks!! While I'm still carefull in matching like colors when washing, the color catchers allow me to throw, say a dark blue/green batik in with my regular load and not worry about color contamination! Sometimes, I even use one for a couple of loads!(GASP!) like a light a light load followed by a dark one and it seems to work just as well. |
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-16-2007, 08:17 AM (28 of 34)
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I was looking for color catchers in a local super market and couldn't find them. I shall continue to search. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
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From: Sancin
Date: 04-16-2007, 03:38 PM (29 of 34)
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I couldn't find the catchers here for a long time either, then found them at WalMart. Now the Oxyclean ones are in all our stores.
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-16-2007, 03:59 PM (30 of 34)
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Well, I don't shop at Wal Mart so I won't find them there. I'll just keep looking -- sooner or later I'll find them. Dorothy |
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From: grandma C
Date: 04-19-2007, 10:47 AM (31 of 34)
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I found colorcatchers, by Shout, at K-Mart and bought 4 boxes. I find them hard to find. Oh, fyi, color catchers make a great stabalizer for machine embroidery. Why buy it new when you can recycle it and use it a second or more time. Now I will use my colorcatchers twice in the wash before I save for embroidery. What are they made of anyway? |
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From: siwian
Date: 04-22-2007, 01:31 PM (32 of 34)
I goofed big time!!! DD(17) has a skirt with various shades of pink. She told DD(15) to wash it with DARK colors. I told DD(15) to use the color catcher sheet and it should be alright to wash her black lace and white bra with the skirt. Well, DD used 3 color sheets and her bra is now black lace and pink!!! She is not happy with me. The color sheets are all the color of the darkest pink in the skirt. They did their job, sortof. This skirt has been washed several times. Now the problem is: DD(15) wants a black lace and white bra, not a black lace and pink bra. She says it is tacky  and I say no one else is going to see it. She rewashed it right away but the pink is still there. Any suggestions for getting the color out of one part without changing the color of the lace? I'll check out the site already listed here. I'm thinking about having her try the clorox sheet to wipe the pink areas with and see if that helps.
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From: Sancin
Date: 04-22-2007, 06:11 PM (33 of 34)
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Try Rit or Tintex colour remover and follow directions. Bleach may work but may weaken any elastic or lycra in the bra and may make the black greyish, but at least the pink would be gone. I doubt, with weak solution all the black would go, but not positive. Every one should post a sign above their washer and dryer. "If colour runs, do NOT put into the dryer - or iron" Heat sets colour in the majority of dying projects. With some things, unless would damage garment, I would even try to keep the garment moist until I discover a way to remove colour. But that could be a problem with mould while you take awhile to figure how to remove the colour. *~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: grandma C
Date: 04-24-2007, 08:13 AM (34 of 34)
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How about turning the bra completely black and buying another white bra and adding black lace or buying andother bra like the one that is ruined. I am glad you posted this because since I got a new frontloading large capacity washer, I have been washing all my colored permmanent press garments and bras in the same load with color catchers. I do usually wash the new dark colored things alone first but now I think I will return to sorting my light and dark clothing again. Sorry your loss is my gain.
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