Originally Posted by
bkay
For me, this is an obvious question. Why in the world would you not want it to shrink? I always want to get my fabrics to shrink and get it done. It's going to shrink. It's cotton! Someone, sometime is going to put it in a dryer. Why not you, when you have control?
bkay
I didn't say I don't want the quilt to shrink. As mentioned, I don't prewash fabric before sewing. I know cotton shrinks that's why I wash / dry / shrink the final quilt. Then all the fabric shrinks pretty uniformly.
Combining unshrunk and preshrunk fabric could be a problem for the finished quilt.