shrinkage problem
I am starting to make a chevron quilt with precut layer cake fabric. The fabric was expensive and good quality so I am alarmed at what happened. i decided to lightly starch the 10" blocks with best press before I started sewing and after pressing three blocks, they looked off to me so I measured them and they were 10" x 9 1/2" I did one more very carefully, measured it before I starched and it was 10x10. pressed very gently and they still shrunk. Just glad I noticed before I did all the blocks. ANyone know why this happened.