Do you prewash and why?
#11
I always pre-wash my fabrics before quilting, except precuts like charm squares. This is especially important for colours like red, blue and black. I can't take the risk of them bleeding onto the surrounding colours after spending months on a beautiful quilt. To prevent fraying, I do a small triangular cut on each corner. This works for me.
#14
I always pre-wash and all my fabrics no matter how small. My reasons, 1.If it is going to shrink it will before I use it, when I piece and quilt it, there won't be the tension on the threads pulling my stitching apart that would be if it isn't prewashed and shrinks in the finished project. 2. when I prewash I toss in the shout color catcher, and whatever dyes are released they won't be ruining my finished project.
I wash fabrics before putting them in with my stash. Sometimes with towels, or sheets, other times with regular laundry, and sometimes if I have a lot to wash I'll do a load of just the fabrics. I often will use a 2nd rinse too.
If I am spending my time to make a quilt or wall hanging I'd prefer to give it a fair chance to last as long as possible.
I wash fabrics before putting them in with my stash. Sometimes with towels, or sheets, other times with regular laundry, and sometimes if I have a lot to wash I'll do a load of just the fabrics. I often will use a 2nd rinse too.
If I am spending my time to make a quilt or wall hanging I'd prefer to give it a fair chance to last as long as possible.
#15
I just had a big mess with Hand dies bleeding all over my reindeer fabrics. I did not make the hand dies I bought them. I washed all the red fabrics together and the hand dies turned my reindeer fabric pepto pink. I even used Retayne in the wash cycle. I will from now on always wash hand dyes and batiks before using them. :)
#17
Power Poster
Join Date: May 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 24,658
Originally Posted by mollymct
Almost always--exception precut charm squares. I want to minimize surprises. Enough little issues crop up anyway!
Most of them washed up nicely - there was one piece that shrank to 4.5 inches. That's at least 10% shrinkage.
Which is why I usually avoid buying precuts.
#18
I prewash too for the same basic obvious reasons stated. But it's also a relaxing kind of thing for me too. Since I buy my fabs with no real project in mind, washing, ironing, folding, organizing it, etc., lets me enjoy the pieces that much more and allows me more time to think about what I could potentially make with it.
Guess it's my private bonding time with my new additions. :lol:
Guess it's my private bonding time with my new additions. :lol:
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Anchorage, AK
Posts: 1,397
Originally Posted by wolfkitty
I always prewash, for several reasons, the main one being getting the shrinking done before I sew. That being said, you will find as many that do not wash as do. Except for flannels. They ALWAYS need to be prewashed because they do shrink a lot! But the choice is up to you. You may want to test for bleeding, especially on the reds, and some blues.
#20
I always prewash...Yesterday I had a bunch of 5" charms to wash..when I fished them all helter skelter out of the washing machine, I decided to put them in a net bag before puting them in the dryer...Well that didn't work,they were all over the place again, but my Mom and I had a lot of fun stacking them up again...
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post