Wow - fabric shrinkage.
04-10-2011, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by dunster
However I've finally decided that it's easier to rip or cut off the threads after washing, before tossing the pieces into the dryer.
04-10-2011, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by fraydknot12326
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Originally Posted by rb.
Anyone who wore tight jeans in the 80s knows cotton shrinks a bit more after the first wash/dry. :). I'm a pre-washer.
04-10-2011, 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ghostrider
Originally Posted by dunster
However I've finally decided that it's easier to rip or cut off the threads after washing, before tossing the pieces into the dryer.
04-10-2011, 06:19 AM
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Thanks for the test.
when I buy fabric..I will prewash and once in a while I just don't get to it, so I pin a paper stating "NOT WASHED" It saves me double the work...
This board is great, always learning something new...
when I buy fabric..I will prewash and once in a while I just don't get to it, so I pin a paper stating "NOT WASHED" It saves me double the work...
This board is great, always learning something new...
04-10-2011, 06:21 AM
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Cowpie2
Do you think that you are going to pre-wash now? I was taught to at my first sewing class, and that is what I continue to do. Thank you for the test, as it re-affirmed what we should be doing!
TreeFrog
Do you think that you are going to pre-wash now? I was taught to at my first sewing class, and that is what I continue to do. Thank you for the test, as it re-affirmed what we should be doing!
TreeFrog
04-10-2011, 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by dunster
I always pre-wash. I still get the puckery look, because the batting shrinks. I have never understood this argument about not pre-washing to get the puckery look. Almost all old quilts were made from fabric scraps that were prevously parts of clothing. Of course it had been pre-washed! My theory is that quilts that do not have the puckery look either have never been washed or were made with polyester batting, which doesn't shrink.
04-10-2011, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by dunster
I always pre-wash. I still get the puckery look, because the batting shrinks. I have never understood this argument about not pre-washing to get the puckery look. Almost all old quilts were made from fabric scraps that were prevously parts of clothing. Of course it had been pre-washed! My theory is that quilts that do not have the puckery look either have never been washed or were made with polyester batting, which doesn't shrink.
04-10-2011, 07:55 AM
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Back a few years ago when fabric was not quite as expensive as it is now I bought some designer fabric for $10/yd and it frayed and shrunk worse then any I had ever had it was so upsetting, then on top of that it got so wonky that I lost more inches in getting it straight. It's bad enough that like everything else the cost of fabric has gone up, but like everything else we're getting less for the higher price. I was taught to wash my fabrics and I always do as a rule because I never know if it might wind up in a quilt for a child, but currently I am working on a quilt that is a controlled scrappy so I am working with 1/2 yds and am scared to death to prewash for this very reason. I really hope this doesn't wind up biting me in the butt. :oops:
04-10-2011, 08:40 AM
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The best reason to prewash has nothing to do with shrinkage. In the printing process they use formaldehyde and when you sew on the fabric the dust covers your sewing machine. Not healthy to breathe even if you aren't an asthmatic...deadly if you are.
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