Originally Posted by Prism99
Originally Posted by lovequiltedstars
I heard some of you use starch to stiffen your fabrics so they don't move as much while cutting and sewing. Have you ever had your fabric shrink while ironing it?
I put together several blocks and started ironing them only to find out that one color had shrunk!!!! I don't have anymore of that material to make more blocks. Am I doing something wrong? I made sure that the iron wasn't too hot, and that I did not iron too long. I don't know what to do. HELP!!!!!!
Try blocking the blocks to size. Sharon Schamber has some videos on Youtube that show how to do this. Ironically, it involves spraying the block with starch until wet (then pinning to size).
What happens to the stretched/blocked blocks the next time they are just washed? Do they revert back to size?