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.
As far as mixing prewashed and not prewashed batiks, it's not a problem. Other than the bleeding tendency, it doesn't matter if they're prewashed or not (unless you're going to fuse them) so you wouldn't really need to keep them separate. The 'don't mix' rule applies to regular cottons because the unwashed will shrink and the washed will not, making the quilt pucker unevenly when washed.