Originally Posted by weezie

Looking back ot some of my finished quilts and quilt tops, I can easily see that some problems I had would probably have been eliminated if I had had my fabric crisply starched. I am a fairly recent convert to starching, but am now a great believer in it. I have one issue with the spray starch and that is having it land on the fabric only and not on all surrounding areas, including furniture. I'm thinking that next time I go into a fabric washing/starching operation, I should cover the surrounding area with bed sheets. What do you do to protect the area around your ironing board? Also, I just bought a lot of die-cut 2-1/2" strips. Obviously, I will not be pre-washing them, but they are Bali prints, so when I wash the finished quilt, will I need something in my wash water to keep colors from bleeding, do you think??? (I've read many times on this QB the name of the product used for that, but can't think of it right now.)