"Lesson In Patience" Is Completed

This quilt is an example of "What can go wrong will go wrong". First of all, I didn't like my quilting design, so I picked out every second row, then requilted it. Because of all the stitch removal, I decided to wash it to clean up the little thread bits and close up the needle holes. Much to my dismay, I saw that many of the red fabrics bled. I looked up the instructions online for the article "Save My Bleeding Quilt". The quilt was soaked in the bathtub with hot water and Dawn dish detergent for many hours. Then I ran it through a rinse cycle in the washing machine. The red stains came out of the top of the quilt but there were some areas on the back that were still stained. Even some of the green fabric bled. One of the pictures shows a stain. I appliqued some orphan blocks over the worst parts and will cover a few more spots another time. It's a good thing this quilt wasn't intended as a gift! I always prewash all of my fabrics and I used six colour catchers when first washing this quilt. None of that helped, the fabrics bled anyway. I am going to throw away the reds that were the culprits. It's probably a good idea to soak the rest of the reds from my stash in Retayne and hot water. I named this quilt, "Lesson in Patience". The pattern came from a Fons and Porter magazine, Quilting Quickly, March/April 2015. The pattern was called, "Scrappy Chains". The block is the same as Bonnie Hunter's "Carolina Chain". Her blocks are set on point and these blocks are a straight setting.