my poor red pillow cases

=( what happened to them!!!

They were red, and today I pulled them off the clothes hoist and they have yellow stains all over them! I thought bleach?? but the stains are darker yellow on the outside - like rings, and then less yellow in the middle. does this sound like bleach - like the red has gone, or something else yellow has stained them?
do you think if i just wash them again it will be ok?

I only ever use washing powder... but DH has got napisan that he uses sometimes for his work clothes. they wouldnt have been in the same cycle, but if they were washed in the next cycle is there a chance they would have got stuff on them from out of the machine??

TIA!

Sounds like bleach to me - do you use fabric softner? Because I have found sometimes it does bleach things, when it sprays out from it's holder during the first spin.....

no i dont...

is there anything i can do?? or am i doomed to have red and yellow spotted pillow cases?

You could find red machine wash dye and redye them?

hmm thats a good option thanks Kaz

ETA, snap Kaz....! You could try dying them perhaps - but then you might have dark red pillow cases with lighter red spots... not really sure.

thanks Ausgirl. DH doesnt care.. he goes 'we just sleep on them' ...im pretty lazy so can see me leaving them...

if DH used napisan in the machine, is there a way to make sure there isnt any hanging around in the machine for the next load?

Don't hold me to it, but I didn't think napisan was that strong that any remanents in the machine would be enough to bleach something. I had a white with red check teatowel that got in the dark load and came out grey with red check the other week and put it in a really strong bucket of napisan, got all the grey out but didn't touch the red....don't really know what's going on in your machine!!

thats whats werid. aside from just washing powder, the napisan is the only other thing we have ever used!! (unless DH has been doing something sneaky...he is a bit of a washing freak...)

thanks for your help girls!

they couldn't have gotten dropped from a bird or something? Although I've been getting weird marks on my towels too :(

Napisan has Sodium Percarbonate in it - it's generally colour safe but not always.

Kaz - they were only hung up inside...I do hang them up outside if i do them with the sheets...but this time they were washed by themselves.

hmm thanks everyone!

What washing powder do you use? Never use one that has "optical brighteners" in the ingredients. They can sometimes bleach your clothes. Always use a washing powder specially made for colours (or at least hasn't got optical brighteners in them). Although most colours/dyes are not affected by these additives, some dyes do bleach when using them.

How mysterious! It really does sound like bleach to me, but Napisan has never done anything like that to any of my coloureds. Are you sure there's no Exit Mould or similar in the house that someone may have been using?