Legacy Premium Muslin from Jo-Ann
 

It feels very nice - and it is tightly woven - I consider it to be a high musliln.

My experience:

I bought two 15 yard, 90-inch wide bolts of it. I think it gets stretched when it is put on the bolts and relaxes later. Anyway, both bolts were short about three inches from the full 15 yards.

I soaked 90 inch lengths in hot water (after serging the ends) and then rinsed them in cold water, and dried "until done."

Results:

The selvages looked "crinkly" when taken out of the dryer - but seem to stretch to the length of the fabric.

The width went from 91.25 to 91.00 inches.

The length (measured about three inches from the edge) went from 90 inches to 85 inches.

That's very helpful information! I haven't used any of that yet, but I recently bought a yard each of the bleached and the natural Legacy muslin in the 108" width so that I could see how I liked it.

It did wash up nicely and I was impressed with how it feels - nice and smooth and substantial. I'm looking forward to using it in some quilts, whenever I need white or natural fabrics.

I buy this the same (90 inch x 15 yds) with a 40 or 50 % coupon. Good buy, good fabric. Not heavy like kona, but not see-thru thin. Nice balance

All that seems normal shrinkage rate to me...selvage will pucker... It's a tighter weave- or something-that's the reason we cut it off......a good muslin, when washed is soft and marshmallowy, in my opinion...love it!

I have used this and have found it to work very well.

It has always been my thought that muslin shrinks a lot. Therefore, I always buy more than I need and wash it before I use it. Ask me how I came to that realization...

I have learned that MANY woven cottons will shrink - eve LQS fabrics washed in tepid water!

Thanks for posting this! I'm always a little "stuck" when buying the muslin, and feel like it is always a gamble. Word of mouth is so valuable!

I'm wondering if this is the muslini that's perma-press as I bought a bolt of it to make my pillowcases to store quilts. Thought if I got perma-press it would eliminate most of the wrinkles when washed. I used the leftover fabrics from the quilts to make the cuff and give the quilt to whomever in the pillowcase with their name on it (if its a child/baby).

This fabric feels "wonderful" - soft, tightly woven, has a nice hand - but it rumples.

I've also used this (in my red and white log cabin quilt) and I've found it to feel very nice. It's not extremely thick == but there's a limit to the thickness you really want -- I'd hate to hand-quilt a quilt with the thick kona backing!

I buy the 108" Legacy Premium Muslin from Jo-Ann by the bolt with a 50% coupon & love it. I have never laundered the whole bolt at once so I'm not sure about the shrinkage but the shrinkage you mentioned doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I haven't found it in Canada so I have to have it shipped to a friend in AZ because Joann's no longer ships to Canada.

Thanks bearisgray, I have looked at this but never used it. I may have to give it a try.

It does eliminate wrinkles. I've made shirts with it. I used to buy Hancock's version of it before they closed.
I used it for almost everything. I've used it in quilts.

I live in Nevada and have used a lot of muslim because it's so airy. Mainly I use it to make shirts and pants, and because I always pre-wash, there is shrinkage, some more than others. I don't think you can pre-wash one brand of muslim and then generalize those findings to all brands of muslim. At least I haven't found that to be true. If I run across a new brand, I prefer to buy a yard and wash it to see how it does. I can always use a yard of muslim for something. In fact, I have been known to shop a sale in the morning, run home and put my sample yards and half-yards through the wash and see how they look. Then I hurry back and buy the best of what came through the wash, like a whole bolt of muslim.

I use this often for hand dye fabric and like it a lot.

If it is perm press, it says so on the end of the bolt or in the description of the number you ordered on line at joanns. The Perm press is lovely. Please confirm which you bought . Thanks for all the info and data. Jane

I do not think it was perma- press because it rumpled - in a nice way. Feels very nice. I made curtains ojt of it.

Shrinkage does vary - some fabrics shrink only crosswise,, some only lengthwise, some both ways. Of the hundreds of fabrics that i measured before and after washing, most of them shrank mostly in one direction.

just bought almost all I could get at my local JoAnn's for cutting into squares for our beginner's classes lesson on hand quilting. Ended up having to pull from 3 almost gone bolts! And not enough to use for backs---so it must be a good one as little as they had! It feels really nice, not rough or too thin. Will buy again for my own use.

A good quality muslin, when washed, is in my mind, soft and cuddly like a marshmallow.......and yes, the selvage, when washed before using will pucker more than the fabric..the weave is different...that's the reason we remove it...
I have used in tops, backs, curtains.......bleached and or natural. A good quality is as good as any other fabric mfgrd.