Ramona Byrd

I've just returned from a marvelous yard sale by a local quilter's guild I never knew was around here. I got masses of quilting stuff, such as 3 rotary cutters and extra blades for 1 dollar each, and pounds and POUNDS of quilt shop fabric for 50 cents per pound. This is NOT Walmart quality.

But with new stuff from several homes, I want to either wash it or nuke it. Not too sure I heard of that or read of it being asked.

Does anyone here do that to their new/old fabrics they bring into their homes?

milp04

I would keep the fabric outside until you can check each piece. I would be sure to wash the fabric. You can do a little bit every day in the kitchen sink. Then you'll be sure that there are no unwanted critters or spots anywhere.

Pam M

cjomomma

Throw them in the washing machine and wash them before letting them anywhere near your stash.
Sounds like you got some really good deals. Lucky you!! :-)

doll-lady

that would be a good thing to do.

QuiltE

Any fabric that comes into my home is washed with the hottest water, and dried with the hottest dryer as soon as it comes into my home.

I call it the abuse factor ... better to find out sooner rather than later, if it can withstand such. I don't want a disaster to happen later, after all my work.

(Of course, this is in regards to cottons ... if you're doing specialty work with specialized fabrics that required TLC, decide about the risk factor!)

Ramona Byrd

Of course, this is in regards to cottons ... if you're doing specialty work with specialized fabrics that required TLC, decide about the risk factor!)[/quote]
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Thanks. It's off to the washing machine, hot water, color catchers and then a hot dryer.

These feel like they are all cotton. Everything looked so neat that I asked if someone was bringing in stuff from a closed LQS, but it was local folks thinning their stash. I suspect it was because of the death of one of them, perhaps this will help with the funeral costs. She must have been much loved by the whole group, RIP.

bluteddi

in this day and age of bedbugs, etc I'll diffinately wash eavery thing be for i let it mingle with anything in my stash...

cathyvv

Looks like you got a great haul!

I agree with the others. I wash and dry all new fabrics before they come into the house. My husband is a little paranoid about getting bed bugs...

I don't want to get them either, mind you. I've heard it's very expensive to get rid of them.

I also have a sensitivity to perfumes, dogs and tobacco, so I would wash it all anyway.

wolfkitty

I would throw it into the washer and give them a good scrub.

CarolLady

Great Deals!!