White or cream material for background quilting
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I've also had some success with soaking fabrics in hot water and then washing them.
Sometimes the 'shrunken' fabric is really quite satisfactory. And sometimes it's not.
In the long run, it's probably better to get what you want to begin with.
'Musin' can be purchased in all sorts of weights and qualities.
If you buy the RocLon tea-dyed muslin - it says 'preshrunk' on the end of the bolt. Don't believe it. It shrank a LOT for me~
Sometimes the 'shrunken' fabric is really quite satisfactory. And sometimes it's not.
In the long run, it's probably better to get what you want to begin with.
'Musin' can be purchased in all sorts of weights and qualities.
If you buy the RocLon tea-dyed muslin - it says 'preshrunk' on the end of the bolt. Don't believe it. It shrank a LOT for me~
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Another vote for tone on tone fabrics here. I usually look for something that 'reads' solid but isn't just to up the interest a little bit. Then, again, if that's not the look you're going for than I'd go with what everyone else says. I don't normally use solids so I'm no help there.
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I have used tone-on-tone in the past. But I wanted to try solids because the books and magazines I see have so many pretty quilts done with white or cream background or black background. So I just got a Kona jelly roll in black. I did order and off-white jelly roll from Moda so I am anxious to try them.
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