Do you wash your fabric before quilting?
#4
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Location: Ohio
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When I bring the fabric in the house, it immediately goes in the washing machine in warm water and then into the dryer (10 minutes) and then hung up to dry. Most of the wrinkles hang out and if the fabric shrinks (and in this day and age, most of the time all the fabric shrinks in the washing) I will have all the fabric with no shrinkage when I start to sew. Reds and blues always leave red or blue water and sometimes the blacks and always use 5 or 6 color catchers in each washing load.
#5
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
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I don't prewash, but with red, or any other suspicious color...I cut a piece, like 1" X 1", put in a container of hot water and see if it bleeds..if it does, then I decide if I want to use or replace......so far so good .
#8
I always pre-wash lengths of fabric before using them. Someone on this board gave the tip to sew the two raw edges together with a zig-zag stitch to avoid twisting and ravelling in the washer and that works really well. If I have dark fabrics then I use a color catcher. I don't wash pre-cuts, so if I'm giving a quilt made with those I always give a color catcher with it.
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