To wash or not to wash.....
#61
I have only found synthropol at a local quilt shop. You just use a cap full in a load of your fabric and it sets the dyes. I don't use any detergent. I use it for batiks and red and purple fabrics especially so they don't run on other fabrics after I have sewn a quilt together.
#65
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Southern , Virginia
Posts: 1,518
Like Kathy says, if there is a problem, I want to be the first to know. I also want to make sure that the markings I may have used washed out. I do NOT wash wall hangings B4 giving away. I also give the recipient washing instructions and a color catcher for their first wash.
#67
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Snowbird: WI & FL
Posts: 313
I prewash most of my fabrics, especially darker colors. I had a bad experience with a red running onto a cream background when I was spritzing it with water to remove marks I had put on it with a disappearing quitling pen.) I don't wash before giving them away...just put them in the dryer on a fluff cycle just in case there is a stray cat hair attached.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post