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  • Dancing With The Stars Quilt: First Wash

    Mary recently finished a multi-year quilt project:

    Dancine With The Stars quilt - detail
    Dancine With The Stars quilt – detail

    The overall pattern is “Dancing With The Stars” and it involves more intensive detail work than I have ever deployed on anything I’ve ever done:

    Mary with quilt on ping-pong table
    Mary with quilt on ping-pong table

    Washing the quilt required a generous handful of Color Catchers to prevent the bold colors from bleeding into the lighter fabrics:

    Dancing With The Stars quilt - color catchers
    Dancing With The Stars quilt – color catchers

    The sheets on the left came from the wash and the ones on the right came from a separate rinse cycle. We didn’t expect the “average” color to be brown, but there it is. We were both mightily relieved when they performed as expected!

    Now, to send it away …