washing fabric
01-15-2011, 01:27 PM
#11
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Idaho
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Hello, and welcome from Idaho!
Your question is one that has been debated over and over. It seems to be a matter of your personal preference and also whether you want it to shrink at all after it is completed.
Your question is one that has been debated over and over. It seems to be a matter of your personal preference and also whether you want it to shrink at all after it is completed.
01-15-2011, 01:55 PM
#14
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: North Texas
Posts: 980
Welcome from Tx! Im with S D G..If you wash it first, it is a mess coming out of the dryer, you have to trim all the threads and press, press, I wash my quilt when I'm done, no mess! Haven't had any problems!
01-15-2011, 02:13 PM
#15
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Milverton, ON, Canada
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Hello and welcome from Ontario. I wash my fabrics as I go to use them. If I am only washing a yard or two for a certain project I will wash other fabrics of like colours and then I mark them as washed before I put them back into the stash closet.
01-15-2011, 02:43 PM
#17
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
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no, not all of us do this...i made my first quilt in 1976...over the years i have pre=washed fabric, on occassion...i decide by the fabric itself. Batiks tend to bleed, if i am using them in a quilt with any other fabric i pre-wash them and make sure they are not going to bleed. if i am using all batiks and they are all similar in color i don't worry about it. if it is red, i color test; if the fabric feels--weird--or has an odor...i prewash; but 95% of the time i do not pre=wash ... and have made some pretty good quilts. i do always wash my finished quilts as soon as the binding is on. i wash them and dry them in my machines if they fit, i go to the laundramat for bigger machines if they are too big for mine. they come out so soft and fluffy! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Originally Posted by pledig
Hi! I am completely new to quilting, haven't even started with my first. I just retired and it's something I've always wanted to do. I have been reading and reading and looking. I am so inspired by all the beautiful, magnificent and intricate work I have seen displayed in this forum. All of you are amazing!
I am going to start small and see if this is something I can really do and really enjoy. I'm going to make some potholders, then graduate to placemats and then go for it if all goes well.
I have a very elementary question, I'm sure, so I need help. Some of the reading I have done says to wash my fabric the minute I bring it home from the shop and then iron. Is this required? Do all of you do this? Thanks for the feedback.
I am going to start small and see if this is something I can really do and really enjoy. I'm going to make some potholders, then graduate to placemats and then go for it if all goes well.
I have a very elementary question, I'm sure, so I need help. Some of the reading I have done says to wash my fabric the minute I bring it home from the shop and then iron. Is this required? Do all of you do this? Thanks for the feedback.
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