Originally Posted by Extreme Quilter
I love that new fabric smell and feel too, It pains me to prewash fabrics, but I have found from experience the hard way and it is a necessary evil. But until I throw my newly purchased fabrics in the wash, I linger over them as long as I can.
ExtremeQuilter, you can always buy those scented starches, to put a nice smell back into your fabrics. I know they have lavendar and lemon, not sure what else :D