I have always washed everything because of allergies to other fabrics in one of my four children. BUT.. then I made three crib quilts this past spring using name brand precuts. Then came the blisters to my hands, especially the right hand fingers. All dry blisters but the peeling was awful, catching every thing I touched. My doctor guesses the fabric is the villain, since it was the only new thing in my life.
SOOO.. I will have to wash everything in the bathroom sink with Eucalan and Retayne again. Retyne has really worked on the colorfastness because I have used colorcatchers with large pieces of the same fabrics in te washing machine and the catchers were saturated with color until I washed several times.
I will wash all of it again.