I always prewash bright or dark colors , never prewash pastels when making a quilt. If making clothing, I always prewash if it will be washed after wearing. and, I open fabric . I think that allows me to see if it was on the bolt off grain. Back in Home Ec class in the 50's we always had to do that, and then two of us would grab diagonal corners and pull to get the grain straight. It
sure saved things from being wonky later!

I usually prewash yardage but not pre cuts. I open it up to wash, not sure why I do this just always have, now after reading about the fold I guess it sounds like the beat thing to do.

Same here and same reason.

Wideback fabric is great stuff ..
... but oh such a monster to fold, press, and manipulate to get a straight cut!
Kind of like a Love-Hate Relationship! :D



White line on the fold ... agree, I would not cut it, though I would make sure I tagged it so I did not forget when I went to cut. Beware ... if you are cutting WOF pieces, you have a problem! :)

I don't always use the wide, and I've definitely never washed it before. It never mattered.
This quilt requires it. Bossy quilt ;-)

I only recently started pre-washing my fabric. I am happy I did. I'm a little bit of an ironing addict and now I'm a starching and ironing addict! I use the Niagara non-aerosol starch and like it a lot. It smells nice to me, and starching the fabric before cutting leads to more accuracy.

Everything is washed, pressed, and loaded on the frame. The tip about pinking the edges was very helpful, as was the tip about taking it out of the dryer before completely dry, and folding in half to iron. Luckily, DH was here to help me fold. Thanks, ladies, and thank you Mandyrose from bringing up prewashing, today ;-)

I open mine so it will some what smooth the crease.