Ewwww.... I'm so glad I prewash my Fabric!!!!
#41
I ususally don't prewash my fabrics, but when I don't know how they were stored....I wash it. I go thrift shopping for my kids' clothes and I keep it all in bags and bring everything straight to the wash.
#43
Oh yucky! It is a good thing you're a prewasher. I always wash before actually using, but not always before storing. I might rethink that now!
But on the upside your chickens got a tasty snack! I won't tell my chickens, they'd be jealous (all they got thrown to them today was some cracked corn). :)
But on the upside your chickens got a tasty snack! I won't tell my chickens, they'd be jealous (all they got thrown to them today was some cracked corn). :)
#44
The ewwww factor is the main reason I prewash EVERYTHING before I store it..fabric, cloths, linen..no matter if it is from a shop and packaged or from a thrift, who knows what the fibers are holding and who "handled" these fabrics and how.
Great find for you on the fabrics, and glad you caught the intruders before they spread!
Great find for you on the fabrics, and glad you caught the intruders before they spread!
#45
Originally Posted by Ladyjanedoe
This can be a touchy subject. I know people who are just as avid about NOT prewashing as you are about washing. I have some interesting conversations with these folks.
Personally, I'm a washer.
The maggots were a real bummer but congrats on the rest of your find.
Personally, I'm a washer.
The maggots were a real bummer but congrats on the rest of your find.
I admit, I've found a few creepy-crawlies in the studio, but I do live in Louisiana. I don't panic when it happens because the humidity and heat turn nooks and crannies into incubators, so we battle insects a lot, even now when the weather is down to freezing.
I will say, though, I'd have washed that bag of fabric!
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Originally Posted by fleurdelisquilts.com
Originally Posted by Ladyjanedoe
This can be a touchy subject. I know people who are just as avid about NOT prewashing as you are about washing. I have some interesting conversations with these folks.
Personally, I'm a washer.
The maggots were a real bummer but congrats on the rest of your find.
Personally, I'm a washer.
The maggots were a real bummer but congrats on the rest of your find.
I admit, I've found a few creepy-crawlies in the studio, but I do live in Louisiana. I don't panic when it happens because the humidity and heat turn nooks and crannies into incubators, so we battle insects a lot, even now when the weather is down to freezing.
I will say, though, I'd have washed that bag of fabric!
#48
Originally Posted by Candace
I always prewash my fabric. I don't want dirt, bedbugs, chemicals or allergens coming into my home. I also don't want bleeding fabric or surprise shrinkage.
Anyway, I'm so GLAD I'm a anal, prewasher. I happened upon a Craigs List ad last week for fabric. I traveled about 45 mins. and found a granddaughter selling her grandmother's stash. I guess grandmom had passed away and they were storing all her fabric in huge garbage bags out in a storage shed. I got 8 HUGE bags of fabric for $40!!! About 80% of it was quilting cottons. The rest of it I freecycled. I found a large spider in one of the bags and thought that was the worst thing that would happen. I spent the day washing and drying it, but left about 10 yards of fabric in my laundry hamper that I didn't have time to get to. I pulled it out today to wash it, and at the bottom of the hamper and I am not joking, were about 50 maggots. I about died. The fabric was all clean looking, no smells or dead things in it. But something had laid eggs in the bags...maybe a fly or moth or catepillar. Bringing the bags into my warm house caused them all to hatch. I quickly washed and dried the remaining fabric and fed the maggots to my chickens. Can you imagine what my sewing room would be like right now if I hadn't prewashed and dried this fabric???? I get the willies thinking about it. <shudder>
Another reason to add to my growing list of reasons as to why I always prewash. I don't want maggots....ewwww.
Anyway, I'm so GLAD I'm a anal, prewasher. I happened upon a Craigs List ad last week for fabric. I traveled about 45 mins. and found a granddaughter selling her grandmother's stash. I guess grandmom had passed away and they were storing all her fabric in huge garbage bags out in a storage shed. I got 8 HUGE bags of fabric for $40!!! About 80% of it was quilting cottons. The rest of it I freecycled. I found a large spider in one of the bags and thought that was the worst thing that would happen. I spent the day washing and drying it, but left about 10 yards of fabric in my laundry hamper that I didn't have time to get to. I pulled it out today to wash it, and at the bottom of the hamper and I am not joking, were about 50 maggots. I about died. The fabric was all clean looking, no smells or dead things in it. But something had laid eggs in the bags...maybe a fly or moth or catepillar. Bringing the bags into my warm house caused them all to hatch. I quickly washed and dried the remaining fabric and fed the maggots to my chickens. Can you imagine what my sewing room would be like right now if I hadn't prewashed and dried this fabric???? I get the willies thinking about it. <shudder>
Another reason to add to my growing list of reasons as to why I always prewash. I don't want maggots....ewwww.
Anytime I get any thing that can be washed I spend the time to take it to a Laundry mat before I bring it home. who knows what is crawling around in it
#49
When I buy at a rummage sale etc. I wash the fabric, when I buy from a store I tend to not wash. But...this is where cold weather comes in handy. Right now all I have to do is leave the packages out in the car (-10 below this morning) and it freezes all the little critters! LOL
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