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Old 01-22-2014, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by amh
I'm one of those people who does not really like the crinkly look. I have lots of warm and natural 100% cotton batting. When I had a top loader washing machine I could preshrink it, but now that I have a front loader, am not sure how to do it.

I have had one suggestion to soak the batting in quite warm water in the bathtub and then pretend I am stomping grapes to get the water out and then to dry it. I haven't tried it yet.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to preshrink the batting?

Thanks.

Aileen
Warm and Natural is not 100% cotton. It's needle punched through a polyester scrim. It's more like 88 - 12.

You could also just spray it down good with a spray bottle and put it in the dryer. It doesn't have to be soaking wet and the dryer is what really causes shrinkage.
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