I threw away black fabric that kept shredding. I wasn't going to give it away so that they would have the smae problems.

I had a fat quarter that I had received in a grab bag from a well known quilt shop. That thing shrank so much. I think it shrank just from looking at it. Out it went. Wouldn't want that in a quilt.
Mary

Never.
Never.

If a fabric is a bleeder -

1) I will try to return it to the store (if I have a sales receipt) - I consider a bleeding fabric defective

2) If I can't return it, I'll discard it. I won't give it to Goodwill or any of those places, because I would not like to have someone else's project mucked up because he/she didn't know any better about fabrics.

3) Cotton burns nicely. Throw it in a fire.


If it's very wrinkled -

1) I would try washing it one more time - and see what happens

1a) If it behaves better, use it.

1b) If no better or worse, get it out and away from your good stuff.

I think keeping a bad piece of fabric is kind of like keeping a rotten apple with good apples. The one bad piece will just spoil the rest of the project.

And I would, too.

I would use as a dust rag. good Idea!!

I have never thrown any fabric away like that. I guess I have been lucky. Now I would not even consider throwing away any fabric either ir be scraps or crumbs. I save them and give them to one of the ladies in my guild. When she gets enough "scraps" she makes a dog bed and uses that for the stuffing and then she donates the bed to the human services. I keep a small garbage can next to me just for that purpose and I encourage everyone to do the same.

I bought some FQs along with my magazine subscription. The 1st few I washed I could not get to stop running plus when dry they were hard. All went out.

I would try to take it back and get a refund if I could. But yes I have thrown new material away. You can also use the material as a cleaning rag. I also let my husband use material that I don't want to tie his tomatoes up in his garden.