Originally Posted by
bearisgray
Actually - I was wondering how many of you consider the fabric you buy to be "needle ready" when you bring it home from the store.
I should have worded the question better.
This seems to be a perennial question on this board. Prewash? Don't prewash? I don't usually, and am not going to start, although I had never thought in terms of "needle ready." For those who want to wash and iron three or more yards of fabric or worry with the ravelling in a fat quarter, more power to you. In the days when we made our own clothing, washing to take care of shrinkage was important, but once fabric was "sanforized," my mother and I said, "Hallelujah, amen," and gave up prewashing unless the colors were likely to bleed--red, black, dark blue, etc. froggyintexas