mjpEncinitas

I love the Dr. Who motto. The quilt is turning out great.

mjpEncinitas

For those of you who starch help? I feel like some of my squares would be better if I used starch. Do you starch the whole piece of fabric you get in the boom? How do you decide when to starch?

Kassaundra

I use spray sizing (like starch found next to the starch) on everything. When I'm pressing the fabric prior to cutting, when I am assembling pieces especially if any bias edge will be handled, after block is assembled and gets it's final press and any time in between I think it needs it.

mjpEncinitas

What's the difference between sizing and starch? Why sizing?

Janice McC

Starch and sizing are made differently. Starch stiffens fabric, and sizing makes fabric easier to work with, it gives it body. I almost always use sizing. Makes pressing and ironing easier.

terriamn

I have found I prefer starch over sizing and it’s much less expensive. I starch the entire piece of fabric I receive and the fabric that will be used in the block. As a rule I don’t starch after that. Read where it could shrink fabric in a block. No idea if that is true but scared me into not trying it.

sewbizgirl

Never thought to starch or 'size' fabric before piecing. Today I am using a charm pack of plaids that one of the ladies in our group cut, with which each of us is to make a men's charity quilt. Some of the plaids are pretty solid, but many are that awful loose weave homespun. I could have really used some starch on those pieces! I'm making half square triangles. This is one of those 'grit your teeth and get it done' quilts, LOL!

sewbizgirl

Janice, do we have any kind of time frame for when the next Boom will be? And can we hang out here and chat til then? I love our group and our camaraderie.

terriamn

Sewbiz I detest working with homespuns, when ever I get any in variety packs they go straight to my sister.

It’s 16 degrees here today with a nasty wind. Brrrrrr

givio

Kassaundra, that's one of the coolest quilts I've ever seen.