To Prewash or not to prewash
#11
I ALWAYS prewash...no surprises. When I wash the fabric I clip the corners so when I go in my stash I know that it's been washed. When I first started sewing I made a blouse and it was beautiful.....until I washed it. So when I started quilting I always washed because I hand dye a lot of fabric and don't want to cry after I do all that work and it bleeds anyway. Even if I used retayne.
#14
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Omaha, NE
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That controversy will never be solved. You do what you like, as long as you are using quality fabric. "Cheaper" fabric should be prewashed. And your quilt should be made with either all prewashed, or all not prewashed.
#15
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: In the Hills of Arkansas
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No washing for me unless I know it is a color to bleed. Take snips of fabrics and snips of white and place in warm water. If it runs, tosss it, if not you have saved tons of time and I hate ironing
#16
I quit pre-washing years ago. Bleeding is a non issue. Any dye that's not set in the original will still not be set in whatever picks it up. It'll wash out of anything that picks it up. Shrinkage isn't an issue either since quilting stabilizes the fabric. The batting has more to do with shrinkaage than the fabric anyway.
#17
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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For me it's either - or. All of it has to be washed or all of it has to be unwashed and that only if there are no questionable fabrics (bleeders) in the mix. Since I do not keep track of what is and what isn't washed in my stash - most of the time, I wash. As for the handling - spraying the fabric with sizing gives you that crispness and handling.
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