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k3n 07-31-2009 12:12 AM
Originally Posted by sewjoyce
It ranks right up there with the "new car" smell and it's not nearly as expensive!
Not sure my DH would agree with you in my case, Joyce! :lol:

Quilt4u 07-31-2009 01:31 AM
Same here.

sewjoyce 07-31-2009 05:08 AM
Originally Posted by k3n
Originally Posted by sewjoyce
It ranks right up there with the "new car" smell and it's not nearly as expensive!
Not sure my DH would agree with you in my case, Joyce! :lol:
:lol: :lol: Well, maybe not all at once anyway!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

GailG 07-31-2009 10:01 PM
Originally Posted by ghostrider
The smell you are all raving about is formaldehyde, used as a finish to prevent winkles, deter insects, and stop mildew. It is used extensively in the textile industry and is a known hazard. http://www.nycosh.org/workplace_hazards/formal.html
Thank you for this information. That can explain my problem with coughing when I go into a fabric store. Also my hands itcing when I sew. Well so much for my love of new fabrics. I am now a firm believer in prewashing fabrics. Aw, shucks. Now I wish I knew how to send this information for my daughter to read.

Mousie 08-01-2009 12:49 PM
Originally Posted by Extreme Quilter
I love that new fabric smell and feel too, It pains me to prewash fabrics, but I have found from experience the hard way and it is a necessary evil. But until I throw my newly purchased fabrics in the wash, I linger over them as long as I can.
ExtremeQuilter, you can always buy those scented starches, to put a nice smell back into your fabrics. I know they have lavendar and lemon, not sure what else :D

Barbm 08-01-2009 01:28 PM
give me the smell of new fabric over new car smell. I think I'm the only person that tells them to get the smell out of there. It makes me "carsick." Literally- nauseated, queasy, want to vomit.

I asked last year when i bought my Jeep- the salesman thought I was nuts. DH told him to get it out the best they can. It would be better than "ralphing" over the new interior.

j-la 08-01-2009 01:33 PM
Mmmmm-mmmm...
Love that new fabric scent.
Does anyone know if they've made it into a perfume yet? I'll be first in line to buy it.

JackieG 08-02-2009 06:45 AM
Not necessarily embalming fluid, but textiles and other new things are treated with formaldehyde. Just a word of caution. Sizing chemicals make the fabric look and feel wonderful, but it's not very healthy. I moonlight at a fabric store so I am exposed to this stuff fairly frequently. I try to protect my hands and when I bring fabric home I wash it or let it air out before I store it and use it.


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