Originally Posted by
QuiltE
For all the people who spray baste using 505, have we heard anyone with concerns after laundering?
Not that I recall.
While I can't get inside the quilt to see if the adhesive is actually removed,
for sure, after washing/drying the quilt feels as though it is gone.
Sure, maybe I am living in a world of ignorance, but in the bigger scheme of things,
I'm not sure this is a huge concern .... at least to me it is not!
That is, unless and/or until someone convinces me otherwise.
I never knew it was still in my quilts until I saw and felt it on the inside of tshirts I had used it on - even after they had been washed a couple of times. Obviously, it's in the quilts whether we see it or not, unless you have them dry cleaned. There's no way I'd do that. I wouldn't want dry cleaning chemicals in baby quilts either. From now on I'm pinning or using spray baste that says it will launder out.
505 specifically says to use dry cleaning to remove it. I use very little of it on my embroidery projects, precisely because a little holds very well, and still it does not come out in a couple of machine washings, and I'm not babying these t-shirts. I usually would use a gentler cycle with quilts than I would with t-shirts.