Originally Posted by
suern3
If you prewashed the flannel, I wouldn't expect there to be much more shrinkage. I sew an x through each block to help stabilize a rag quilt. If you want to add a black border, it would be pretty with your blocks. To me, part of the fun of a rag quilt is to not have to use borders and bindings. A more casual look.
each batik block has a quilted Hawaiian design in the center using my embroidery hoop. Unfortunately I did not pre wash the flannel as I wanted it to rag. I prewashed once when making a rag quilt and it didn’t rag as nice as I would have liked it. So no pre washing