PaperPrincess

Yep this is how I do it too, but I wash it, take it out of the washer then proceed with the bucket method. I mix the starch a bit higher than 50/50.

tmg

I starch before cutting. It seems that I cut straighter using starch.

jitkaau

I never starch.

gollytwo

I never starch and my quilts work out fine. I don't even press fabric let alone starch.
A good friend, and fabulous quilter, starches before cutting, while piecing, and the finally the completed block.

piepatch

I starch before I cut.

SheriR

After you've finished your project, do you wash the starch out or have a stiff quilt?

joyce j

I starch every thing . keeps your cuts straighter.

romanojg

If it's really wrinkly and I'm trying to iron it then yes or if I'm doing triangles or cutting on the stretchy part of the grain then I starch it alot. I spray it then let it settle into the fabric for a few seconds so that when I iron it I dont get the white residue on the fabric.

lvaughan

I have a question also-Do you know what our Grandmothers did, starch, before or after or at all?

jaciqltznok

it is a personal preference as to whether or not to starch at all, but most who do starch do it BEFORE cutting!