do you wash your batting too?
#11
The first time I bought batting (80%/20% low-loft cotton batting) at my local quilt shop, I asked if I should pre-wash it. The quilt-shop lady asked,
"Do you pre-wash your fabric?"
I answered, "Yes, I do."
"Then you should also pre-wash your batting."
So that's what I do.
I like the fact that with pre-washing, once it's quilted, and I've had it bunched up in my lap while sewing on the binding, that a "brand new" is already all soft and 'drapey' and cosy-looking when I gift it - but I mostly do lap and throw-sized quilts. I can see wanting a flatter result if you're making bed quilts.
Jan
"Do you pre-wash your fabric?"
I answered, "Yes, I do."
"Then you should also pre-wash your batting."
So that's what I do.
I like the fact that with pre-washing, once it's quilted, and I've had it bunched up in my lap while sewing on the binding, that a "brand new" is already all soft and 'drapey' and cosy-looking when I gift it - but I mostly do lap and throw-sized quilts. I can see wanting a flatter result if you're making bed quilts.
Jan
#12
No I do not wash batting. I prewash all fabrics, then, after the binding is done, wash the quilt. I use the Warm and Natural batting. It shrinks a little in the dryer the 1st time you wash it so it gives the quilt a really nice effect if you wash it after the quilt is finished.
#13
I prewash warm and natural or warm and white to reduce the shrinkage. It still shrinks some the first I wash the quilt. Which I like. I haven't try warm and natural or warm and white in a quilt without prewashing it. So, I don't know what the difference would be in shrinkage pre or post washing in as a quilt.
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