Thread: Bleached Muslin
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Old 11-07-2018, 05:52 AM
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bearisgray
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I have used the Legacy Studio muslin from JoAnn. It feels nice.

It does shrink - at about the same rate as most of the other quilting type fabrics do. If I remember correctly, it shrank in length. Because I was making curtains out of it, I'm glad I found out that it shrank before I hemmed them.

Just a question/observation:

Why do people not seem to blink at the cost of a yard of fabric at a LQS - but seem to feel that they are being robbed if JoAnn charges the same for similar quality fabric?

(I remember people from "the older generation" going on and on about what things cost when they were younger - I am now a member "of the older generation".)

I bought some Roc-Lon tea-dyed muslin several years ago. The end label said it was "pre-shrunk". I did my usual water ritual before cutting it. It shrank a lot. More than the usual amount of "not pre-shrunk" fabric. It was pretty decent muslin after I shrank it.

I usually measure my fabrics before and after soaking and washing them. Almost all of them shrink - usually more in one direction than the other.

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