IrishNY

I always pre-wash, for many reasons. No matter where the fabric came from.

Iamquilter

I always prewash and serge the two cut edges before washing to eliminate fraying

grandjan

I don't usually pre-wash. If the fabric is a very deep color, I might test a sample to be sure it won't bleed or fade but I like the crispness of working with new fabric and I haven't had a problem with fabrics shrinking or distorting in 30 years. I've used Connecting Threads fabrics and never had a problem of any kind.

grammysharon

I prewash everything. :lol:

FroggyinTexas

When I was a kid, 60 or 70 years ago, Mama prewashed everything because she sewed our dresses and my brother's shirts and she didn't want them to be too small after the first wash.

She stopped that along about 1960 because fabric manufacturers had got their act together and for the most part, shrinkage was minimal.

Deep colors running can still be a problem, but now that I know about color catchers, I just make my project and wash it in hot water with a color catcher and hope for the best. So far, so good.

So, you and I are both guilty of a mortal sin. Just to make matters worse, I don't iron pillow cases either and would rather make them out of blends because they are softer and don't wrinkle. Now that is a mortal sin!

Farm Quilter

I always pre-wash anything FQ size or larger. I just don't want to deal with all the chemicals they put on the fabrics in the warehouses, or bleeding/shrinking issues.

angelarose

Me too!
Angela

JUNEC

Ditto

jillaine

All my fabric-- whether connecting threads or elsewhere-- goes directly from the car (or mailman) into the wash.

I have not found any bleeding or much if any shrinkage in connecting thread fabric. Their fabric ravels about as much as any other fabric.

bgullett

I usually prewash everything.