Originally Posted by ohtoquilt
Hey y'all...
When you buy material for a quilt project do you wash it first or wait until it is finished project? I have heard it both ways and thought I would take a survey.
So the survey says :?:
Bev
I wash everything that I bring into my house and quite often wash the finished project also.....and am I glad I do. Just two weeks ago, I purchased fabric for my daughter's Christmas quilt. When I washed it (a maroon), all the dye washed out of it along the crease line, lines throughout the fabric, and left the entire fabric looking really faded. If I would have spent hours making those compass points (which was what that fabric was going to be for) I would have been thoroughly "ticked off" to say the least.