Black fabric
#23
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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thanks for the info - i have been considering trying the MMlrs. the k. blacks (pre-washed) & the follow up washings in utility quilts have worked out well. they have held up & also great to know about the net order availability.
#25
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Stores such as JAF buy what are called seconds. Before the local Hancock store closed, I would occasionally find a P&B print for sale with an unfamiliar name at the end of the bolt. I knew that Mr. Baer (former owner of P&B, he was the B in the name) did NOT sell to any major fabric stores, ONLY to LQS. So always carefully check the fabric at JAF. The last Kona I bought was a rich brown. When I used it for a border, where the vertical and horizontal borders met, the color was so off, it appeared to be from a totally different dye lot. Nothing I could do. Disappointed but that is part of life.
#26
To prevent it from happening again, make sure the grain runs the same way in the finished quilt...which means cutting the side borders on one grain (lengthwise) and the top and bottom ones on the other (crosswise).
#28
Just to clarify, washing with vinegar and/or salt will do nothing to 'set' the dyes that are now used in the production of cotton quilting fabrics (fiber-reactive dyes). They used to work, long ago, on acid dyes, but acid dyes are no longer used on cotton fabrics. Retayne will set fiber-reactive dyes (for use on uncut fabrics) and Synthrapol will suspend loose dyes (for use on cut and sewn fabrics), salt and vinegar will do neither.
#30
The reason they looked different is because the grain was running perpendicular to itself where the horizontal and vertical borders met. It's because of the way light reflects off the weave and has nothing to do with the dye. All fabrics do this, it's just more obvious with dark solid broadcloths like Kona Solids.
To prevent it from happening again, make sure the grain runs the same way in the finished quilt...which means cutting the side borders on one grain (lengthwise) and the top and bottom ones on the other (crosswise).
To prevent it from happening again, make sure the grain runs the same way in the finished quilt...which means cutting the side borders on one grain (lengthwise) and the top and bottom ones on the other (crosswise).
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