Originally Posted by
Lucio
Joann's flannel is absolute junk. You can count the threads, see through it, it shrinks and pills like mad. If you have some that you purchased a few years ago you can really tell the dfference. That being said, I need some flannel for quilt backs for my children's charity quilts. Can you tell me about the quality of flannel at Hobby Lobby? I hate to drive 30 miles to find that it's also poor quality.
I got a bunch of flannel from Hobby Lobby and because I had had problems with JoAnn's flannel pilling so badly, I washed some of it and it came out fine--no pilling. I'm not normally a pre-washer but because I had heard so many people on this board stress that flannel needed to be prewashed, I did. However, I'll probably go back to my "bad" habit of not prewashing--I feel that as long as all of the fabric is not prewashed then it will all shrink at the same rate and I'll end up with a slightly smaller quilt... I'm not a big fan of ironing
