Originally Posted by
AngelinaMaria
So, if you prewash some of your fabric, you really have to prewash all of it. If I use a large portion of the fabric left over after washing and cutting for my current quilt, how do you keep track of what has been washed and what hasn't. I have way, way too much fabric to prewash it all now.
Perhaps you could attach a safety pin through several folds of whatever fabric you wash (after it is washed and dried and ironed, of course!) so that when you stash it you'll know which has been washed and which has not. If it is your scraps you are thinking about, perhaps two bins - washed scraps and unwashed scraps.
I have had batik FQs distort after washing, but I am a
ruthless washer - the hottest wash and rinse cycles my machine has! I don't have a dryer, so all of my stuff is line dried - it is the washing that has done the distorting.
Good luck! I'd love to see your Dear Jane when it is finished - I love blue and white quilts.
Alison