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    Old 08-04-2018, 03:14 AM
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    Originally Posted by Homespun
    I wash all my quilts to check for loose seams, to remove stray threads and remove dyes, and check for bleeding fabrics.
    I have been donated lots of fabric so never know where it has been. No animals to worry about hair!
    I also always wash for same reasons, but mostly because I don't think a quilt looks as good as it does as after it is washed and dried and becomes "crinkly'!
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    Old 08-04-2018, 08:57 AM
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    Everyone else has pretty much covered it, but for baby quilts I wash it in the harshest conditions possible because I want o know it is going to withstand anything the new parents throw at it before I give it away. Hot water and a hot dryer. (Even thought I tell them to wash it in cold.) That way I can fix anything that comes undone before they get it
    I always use a colour catcher, too.
    For anything I am thinking I might put in competition, I don't wash, as well as wall hangings.

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    Old 08-04-2018, 07:42 PM
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    I always do.
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