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    Old 03-12-2011, 03:25 PM
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    Cold or warm wash , but its the dryer that really makes them shrink.
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    Old 03-12-2011, 04:09 PM
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    Cold wash, regular dry.
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    Old 03-12-2011, 07:08 PM
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    Originally Posted by MicheleVG
    I use cold for wash and reg. setting for drying
    I do the same.
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    Old 03-12-2011, 07:16 PM
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    I started out using cold water and drying outside the dryer, but then I realized I really wasn't giving the fabric a chance to shrink or otherwise misbehave (and I wanted to know whether it would do that before I used it in a quilt), so now I use hot water and hot air.
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    Old 03-13-2011, 04:26 AM
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    I prewash my fabrics the same way I will wash the finished quilt. So for me, that's warm water in the wash and med/low heat in the dryer.
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    Old 03-13-2011, 05:38 AM
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    Since other than flannels I don't prewash...I wash my quilts in warm/warm and dry in the regular mode.
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