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Monday, February 23, 2015

Shout!

If any of my readers aren't aware of the product from Shout called Color Catcher, you should run right out to the store and buy some. Especially if you ever weave with yarns that bleed along with white yarns, or if your spouse is tired of wearing pink underwear that got tinted because somebody put a new red shirt in with the white laundry load.

Yesterday, I stay-stitched and mended about half of the towels and threw them into the washing machine along with one sheet of white Color Catcher. Am I ever glad I included it!


The Color Catcher came out of the wash a nice pale green - exactly the same hue as the sage green (commercially dyed) cotton/bamboo weft that I used in two of said towels, only a few shades paler. The towels themselves still have white yarn (not a similar pale green), so the Color Catcher did its job perfectly.

The rest of the towels will get a similar treatment today, including the use of a Color Catcher...

6 comments:

Laura Fry said...

Love the Color catchers. They always get used with hand dyed cellulose yarns and any hint of fugitive dye coming off industrially dyed yarns.

Cheers
Laura

Alice said...

Looks like you dodged a bullet.

neki desu said...

color catchers are one of the great inventions of civilization.

maliz said...

I bought a packet of colour catchers for I feared that my lately woven towels with self died yarn in the weft, would bleed during the washing process but I didn´t really believe in their effectiveness. So my towels stayed unwashed till this day but your post encourages me try it out. Thanks for that, whatever the result will be...

charlotte said...

I didn't know a color catcher existed, sounds like a great product. I will look for it in the store, hope it exists in Europe!

Sandra Rude said...

Charlotte, if Neki can find it in Spain, you can find it where you live. It really works!