Well you all told me to wash it in the machine before i used it to remove the dye, as I was washing whites and i has some pale pink that needed a wash from the same lot I bought from Penni, so I did 6 balls of pink first in a wash bag and packed together well and here is the result.
I did say at the time that my washer was a USA top loader too big and clobbers stuff too much for kind of gentle washing it needed but i gave it a go and got this