Originally Posted by
nycquilter
I've found that when I buy thin fabric, such as at a local fabric but not quilting store where they sometimes offer it at $1 a yard--too good to pass up--if I wash it, and it shrinks down, it is now of good weight. For backgrounds, I love to use white-on-white or white-on-cream. I find that using a solid sucks the life out and makes things too flat for my taste.
I agree, I rarely use a solid of any color in my quilts. Good to know about the fabric shrinking down and making it a good weight. Now I think of all those priced great white on whites I have passed on . . . .