I'm glad your quilt washed up so well. Drying outside is a great idea, but another thing I wanted to warn about is exposure to sunlight. Next time you do this you would want to cover the quilt with another sheet to reduce the exposure to sunlight. Sunlight and other types of light (especially flourescents) gradually fade fabric dyes. It's a very slow process, but the less light the fabrics received the slower they will fade.

the other reason the quilt should be covered outside is - don't laugh - BIRDS! don't ask how i know.

Some laundromats have a special machine for spinning out excess water. This works well, and it's not dangerous to hang the quilts at that point.

well, i do mine the easy way - I just leave them dirty, lol. I have mine on the beds and i don't let my animals on them and don't let anybody sleep under them or sit on them so they actually don't get dirty. don't have any little kids, thank God! They're grown, even my grandsons are grown, and the great grandkids aren't little any more - 11 and 14. and they know to not even touch the most prized ones. then of course i make some smaller ones that can get treated any old way. but my embroideried quilts i'm talking about i hardly let any one touch. and the animals would pull the threads in them.

Thanks for all the information! :lol: