Originally Posted by gaigai
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
Just wash it and throw in a color catcher. I've made quilts with washed fabrics and cotton batts, washed fabrics and poly batts, unwashed fabrics and cotton batts and unwashed fabrics and poly batts.
The second I put that last stitch in the binding off they go to the washer. I don't even always remember to throw in the color catcher. They all come out fine.
What she said! Well, except for the washed fabrics part. I don't prewash. Ever.
When I first started quilting I pre-washed all my fabrics. And then a quilt shop owner pointed out to me that shop samples are always made with unwashed fabrics and they never have a problem with them. So I quit pre-washing and haven't had a problem yet. And now there will be a dozen people chime in with various horror stories about colors that ran or fabrics that shrank.