Originally Posted by
Candace
If you want to prewash (and I prewash!) then understand washing precuts will make them not square and smaller than what they started out as. Quilters pay a premium to have precuts done to a size they can use immediately and not fuss with or many times avoid cutting. If you're going to wash them, why pay a premium for this and you should just buy the yardage...
I think that this is the main reason not to wash precuts because you need them a certain size for your pattern and they won't be that size when washed. Some people just aren't washers and never will be. The shrinkage on quilts isn't enough for me to prewash plus even with prewashed fabric batting shrinks a little bit as well.