Disaster Averted!

(See the end for some additional pictures if you've already read this posting!) We recently kind of "fell" over a tub of Orvus offered to me for much less than regular price - and of course, hugely less than the little bottles I used to buy at quilt shops.  I grabbed it.  
Had in mind finishing up the quilt I've been hand quilting since February and then washing it and the rose one I completed last year.
Well, I've been busy!

Finished these little silhouettes of George and Martha - truth is, I only left his signature - about 15 or so years ago - so it didn't take long.  And got them framed the next day.

Have begun (not complete yet, about 1/2 done) this linen tablecloth from the big box of things handed down from Aunt Mar.  We settled on the color floss we decided would look best, went shopping for it and there was none of that color.  So I settled for this color and we love it!
I have also been working on several other projects that are complete...but more on that later.
I was ready to wash the quilts.
In the back of my mind I realized that I was hearing a lot about "color catchers" lately and something told me to hold up until I'd bought some.  A couple of stores I tried didn't have them - but I found Shout Color Catcher Sheets at Shop Rite.
Today I washed the quilts.
The first one left absolutely nothing on the sheet, so I figured wow, maybe the cold water and Orvus were doing the trick.
But the second quilt was the one with the really strong pink roses.
I tossed in TWO sheets just in case.
Pulled the quilt out and found not a tint of running.
And then I pulled out the two previously WHITE color catcher sheets!

Whew!

 Here are the quilts laying in the yard between two sheets each, drying.

 The first quilt, the one I just completed.  Heavily quiilted.

 And the quilt that might have been ruined if not for the color catchers.