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:
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
Looks like you dodged a bullet.
color catchers are one of the great inventions of civilization.
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...
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!
Charlotte, if Neki can find it in Spain, you can find it where you live. It really works!
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