Originally Posted by NancyRose
When I first began quilting, I was told to prewash the fabric before cutting. Later, the people at my LQS said that they did not. I came across some fabric that I had prewashed, and I would like to buy some complementary fabric to use with it. Should I prewash the new fabric, because the other has been washed already? If I mixed prewashed and unwashed fabrics, will it cause problems when the whole quilt is washed?
I've mixed on alot of quilts. When I started in the late 70s everyone seemed to wash fabric, so I did. Stopped sometime in the 90s. I always clipped a small triangle on an edge when I washed, so I'd know.
I've not had any problems from mixing them.