Thanks! I use either cotton or 80/20, too. Do you starch your fabrics before you cut?

Absolutely. Starch stabilizes the fabric so it doesn't move when I cut. It also helps eliminate puckers when machine quilting.

Well, I'm game! I'll give it a try!

Starch, starch. starch!!!!

Reminds me of what my Mama told about Grandma many years ago. It was while Mama still lived at home and before she married Daddy. Mama said she had been having to do the laundry most of the time for the whole family and knew how to do it and how much starch (flour and water) to use.

But one day Grandma told her, "Now don't starch my underwear". Mama said it made her so mad, since Grandma knew she had been doing the washing for a long time. So Mama said she made the starch so thick and dipped Grandma's underwear in it and they would stand alone when they dried. Grandma never told her how to do the laundry anymore. Wonder why???? LOL

Totally not true, at least for me. I starch like crazy, use spray basting on both sides of the batting, and I hand baste. The spray basting is great; I love it.

And I starch my piecing fabric before cutting, too.

I'm game too. On to the store tomorrow.

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Hey Carrie I read somewhere on here how to make home made starch I bet it would really be inexpensive to make ;-)

I like the homemade Mary Ellen's that I learned about here. 2 ounces of vodka, couple drops of lavendar essential oil and fill the 16 ounce ME bottle with water.

I found the lavendar oil at Whole Foods and have requested my own bottle of cheap vodka for the sewing room LOL I have been making it with Sky Vodka and that could get a little expensive!!!

I now buy a huge jug at the supermarket and mix my own it was getting to expensive buying a bottle everytime. But oh my the ironing board cover get so stiff!