Originally Posted by
Edie
Anything under 1 yard I do not wash. Precuts I do not wash. I have never had a problem with shrinkage - (I am including batiks in that also). I wash the backing, the sashing, the border and if I buy fat quarters or precuts, I just re-iron them and sew it altogether. Maybe that's it - I steam them flat and maybe that is when they shrink a little.
And, I do not know what I am doing right!!!!!!!!! I hear so much of the shrinkage and have never had a problem.
Edie
Are you using a polyester batting? That would explain no shrinkage.