Yes, I wash everything. I wash the fabric and the backing and I also, put 10 wet wash cloths in with the batting and put in my dryer fuzzy balls to get batting fluffed and it does shrink and it works great for me. Every 10 minutes (in one hour) and shake out the batting and put the wet cloths and the dryer balls back in the dryer, and it does shrink the batting but so the materials have already been washed and dried to shrink them and put the dryer balls with them, too. The materials are by only in the dryer, then only the backing in the dryer, and then the batting is completed in the dryer. Hope this helps.
Last edited by QuiltingHaven; 02-01-2018 at 02:40 PM.
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