Gal... Thank you so much for your informative explanation of why we should prewash our fabrics.
I haver always prewashed my fabrics since my children were little. I tried not wsahing fabrics when I began quilting but the chemicals on fabric straight from the store greatly bothers my finger tips. Prewashing eliminates this tingling feeling.
"Cheaper fabrics made in developing countries cannot always be relied upon to have used Western methods of chemical mordents to set the dyes." It seems to me that most fabric lines, even the high quality ones, have shipped their processing to developing countries.
Again, thank you. Linda