dry fabric in pillowcase?????
#11
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I put small pieces in a bag for delicates and the larger pieces I wash and hang to dry. I have a drying rack and I drape it over that and just re position the material every couple hours to speed the drying.Ii use to but I seldom machine dry any of them, I still press all of it.
I tried the cutting the corners and it didn't seem to do anything for me, it still unraveled lots.
I tried the cutting the corners and it didn't seem to do anything for me, it still unraveled lots.
#16
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Michigan
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I started washing in a pillowcase and dried in one but I found the material to be really wrinkled and take a long time to iron. Now I wash in the pillowcase but take out to dry, this works so much better and less ironing.
#17
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Location: MN
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I like to wash and dry the fabric before cutting to see what it wants to do naturally.
I very seldom even try to "straighten" a fabric by pulling on it diagonally now. It just seems to go back to whatever it wanted to do after being washed.
I try to check the grainlines of the fabric BEFORE buying now. Just because it was cut perpendicularly to the fold is no guarantee that the crosswise grainline is actually perpendicular to the selvages any more.
Sometimes fabric gets pulled off-grain in the processing.
I very seldom even try to "straighten" a fabric by pulling on it diagonally now. It just seems to go back to whatever it wanted to do after being washed.
I try to check the grainlines of the fabric BEFORE buying now. Just because it was cut perpendicularly to the fold is no guarantee that the crosswise grainline is actually perpendicular to the selvages any more.
Sometimes fabric gets pulled off-grain in the processing.
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