Quilt Crinkly Look after Washing
10-15-2013, 08:33 AM
#22
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It's cotton fabric, cotton batting and likely cotton thread; it's going to wrinkle!
Try ironing your dried quilt - I've done this and gotten closer to the "non-wrinkly" effect. (But I didn't like it!)
Jan in VA
Try ironing your dried quilt - I've done this and gotten closer to the "non-wrinkly" effect. (But I didn't like it!)
Jan in VA
10-15-2013, 08:40 AM
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If I want a smooth (not crinkly) quilt, I wash cotton fabric in warm water, gentle setting, and dry it in a warm dryer. Then soak the batting in warm water, spin and then put it in the dryer on the warmest setting allowable. I believe the heat shrinks them up. Anyway I never get the crinkly look this way.
Never thought about the thread shrinking tho.
Never thought about the thread shrinking tho.
10-15-2013, 10:28 AM
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Thread was mentioned a couple of times, I sewed a sample with a different thread and there was a difference. Also, on the sample, I did not use the walking foot. The thread I used on the quilt was Aurifil. I did diagonal lines with the walking foot on the top the quilt and the stitching seams to be pulling.
10-15-2013, 01:39 PM
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I line dry my quilts. I don't like to put them in the dryer because they come out still damp. I use Warm and Natural batting and preshrink it by putting in in the washer in hot water and letting it soak. Do not let the machine aggitate. Then after it has soaked about 45 minutes, I spin it out and put it in the dryer. I also preshrink all the fabrics before I make the quilt. I don't want any surprises.
10-15-2013, 01:46 PM
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Being someone who never washes their quilts until they need it, once upon a time, I was going to enter a DWR quilt in the local quilt show. I had handquilted it using a disappearing pen to mark some of the pattern. Well, it didn't disappear as fast as it should have so I threw the quilt in the washer. It came out all crinkley. I told the lady at the show what I had done and she told me that I should enter it anyway. The crinkles gave it an antique look. Well, it won third place and it also sold at that show.
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