About three months ago I bought a perennial f QUARTERS PACK for $50.00 off the enter net. Yesterday I opened it up to use it and it smelled terrible. I never smelled that kind of a smell before and It is to late to return it . I hate to wash the pieces before i use it but I think if I am going to use it that is what I am going to have to do. Please can someone advise me. Thank you, Josie

Wash.

You might try airing them outside and/or separating them and spray with fabreeze. Just a thought.

Hot water wash and hot dryer!!

Wash them in a mesh laundry bag and press them dry with the iron

I would wash them, and I would also vinegar in the wash.

Wash them in a mesh laundry bag!

Put them in a bag with baking soda or activated charcoal. Separating them and laying them outside to air them out may also work.

Yes, the same thing happened to me once ... I bought a kit once that must have been a year old and stored in a stinky plastic bag in a smelly old basement somewhere. It was awful!!! I washed all the pieces and hung everything out in the sunshine ... eventually the smell did go away.

I always wash my fat quarters, just unfold and put 2-3 per laundry bag and wash If you don't have a laundry bag use a pillow case, tie the open end shut or baste it closed then dry bag and all then Iron, smell should be gone and any shrinkage is taken care of I'd also put a shout in the washer if it smells bad maybe because of the manufacter process they used.

I always wash first.. been burned with bleeding fabric dyes.. no matter where.. LQS or other.

the smell? wow.. did see here to put a bar of soap "Irish Spring" in with fabric in plastic bag for a while..

getting scared about these kind of posts.. smell, bugs.. OK.. I am trapped at home.. buy online.. so far, never any issues....

wow.

Ell

Agree! If you decide to wash them, I would do it by hand in the sink, air dry, then iron. I would definitely not wash in the machine, mesh bag or not.

Several years ago I bought fabric at a quilt shop in central Texas and did not notice the moldy smell until I was home in Colorado. I washed the fabric and added vinegar to the rinse cycle and was able to get rid of the odor.

most of the time it is the bad sizing they put in the fabric to make it feel as good as the best fabric

anytime you purchase (used)fabric- from a source outside of an actual store selling new fabrics-- the first thing you should do is WASH THEM! you never know what might be on the fabrics- from soils/oils/ perfumes---to bugs
whether it comes from an on line source or from a thrift store/yard sale- it should be washed before you do anything with it---for your safety and the safety of your family. lice, fleas, bed bugs, spiders....all kinds of critters can be in the fabrics- you have no idea if they've been in a box in a barn for years- or where they have been stored.

I would try airing them outside first. If that doesn't work, then wash them in a mesh laundry bag.

add vinegar to the wash water-helps eliminate odors

Put them in a large plastic bag and set a bowl of vinegar in there. Keep them tied up for a few days then see if the smell is gone. My father-in-law use to smoke his cigars in our house and the vineger kills the smell. It seems to work on anything!

Wash them.

Put baking soda and vinegar in your wash water. I did that for some fabric I got at a yard sale. But mine smelled like cigar smoke. But it did take the smell out.

I would put them in a bag with baking soda ,open each one up and sprinkle a little on each one as you lay them in there.it will take away the odor and than when you use them you can wash after wards or what ever you like.Kitty litter also helps to draw out odors.

Vingar. Then dry them. Repeat if necessary.

I'd definitely wash it!!

Serge or zig-zag around the edges to prevent ravelling then wash. I do that with any washable fabric that comes into the house before it even makes it to the sewing room.

I have heard this too at a quilt show, but they insisted it had to be the white Lifeboy soap.