using flannel
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using flannel
Ok so I hope the quilt police aren't looking...I have made several (a whole bunch of quilts in the last year) and have used regular cotton fabric with fine results even after washing. But my next project is going to be made from yummy flannel (moda). I don't want to prewash...what do you think? It will be for me
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Quite a while back I bought several 10-yard bolts of solid colored flannel from JoAnn's when they were having their Black Friday sale. (It was $10 per bolt - who could resist?) I decided to use some of the cream-colored flannel for the back of a comfort quilt. As always, I washed the flannel first. It felt yummy, thick, very nice - but when it was washed it pilled quite a bit. I didn't want that on the back of the quilt, so I used the flannel as batting instead. Another bolt, that I used earlier, didn't pill at all.
So... another reason to wash flannel is to see if it's going to pill.
So... another reason to wash flannel is to see if it's going to pill.
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I had a friend who made a rag quilt and didn't prewash. Some of the flannels shrank more than the others after washing the finished quilt, making the whole quilt kind of bunchy in spots. I still feel sad for her when I think of that...
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