Originally Posted by ontheriver
I do for several reasons.
1. I want to make sure the person I gift to gets a clean quilt.
2. I want to make sure no seams come apart or that there are no other problems.
I made 3 baby quilts and gave them the washer and dryer test to make sure everything was holding fine especially they were my very first quilts....
I bought all my fabric for those quilts from somebody here on this blog. I don't know if it is the fabric or me but on one quilt, ONE color all the seams are falling apart, This was a pinwheel quilt so not easy to repair. Now repairing and fully quilting all the blocks for extra solidity and I hope it will hold the rest of it.
So that is one reason why I will always wash my quilts after they are finished.
Also the chemical the manufacturer put in the fabric, the dragging around while sewing are all reasons for me to wash before giving away :-)...Back to my repairs now :-( grrrrrrrr