Originally Posted by
Alice PD
feline fanatic, Thanks for your response. Your quilt is awesome! All the colors here look vibrant and sharp, and the shape is good too. Did you use soap when washing? Also, when drying the fabric, did you take it out of the dryer while it was still wet.....damp....or dry?
Alice PD, I prewash flannel in hot water and tumble dry in the dryer until just barely damp if I remember to check the dryer. But a lot of the time I forget and it ends up drying all the way. I use soap as I want to get all the nasty chemicals used to treat fabric for shipping (formaldehyde) and manufacture out of it. My goal is to subject the fabric to any treatments it might get as a completed quilt. Normally I wash in cold but I never know if the quilt is gifted how the recipient may launder it so I err on the side of caution. Plus I want as much shrinkage as possible the first go around.