Another Reason To Wash Your Fabric!!!!
#94
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 217
Each of us does what makes us comfortable.
I do not pre-wash because I like the sizing in the fabric and life is too short to spend hours ironing and starching fabric before I cut it. I have never found anything bizarre in my fabric in about 55 years of sewing and I'm not going to start getting paranoid now.
However, every quilt I make is washed at least once, with colour catchers, before I give it away. I have a bunch of feline quilt inspectors, so cat hair is endemic in my house. Plus, I love the feel of a good new clean quilt before I give it away.
I do not pre-wash because I like the sizing in the fabric and life is too short to spend hours ironing and starching fabric before I cut it. I have never found anything bizarre in my fabric in about 55 years of sewing and I'm not going to start getting paranoid now.
However, every quilt I make is washed at least once, with colour catchers, before I give it away. I have a bunch of feline quilt inspectors, so cat hair is endemic in my house. Plus, I love the feel of a good new clean quilt before I give it away.
#96
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 243
Yep; I pre wash it all. Went to a quilt shop once and found all sorts of littleones running around with snotty noses and wipping on the fabric. So-----I wash it all. I had pre ordered my fabric and it was already cut and bagged for me when I got there, thank goodness; but you never know. I usually try to stay away from any quilt shop with children running around like that plus the candy and cookies they had. Grand opening is fine but not all the time. I even wash my hands before looking at fabric or touching any of it. People in my guild don't wash their fabric; they say they want it crisp. I would hate to make a quilt and give as a gift and then wash it and the fabric run. Embarrrrsssssssiiinnnnngggggg!
#97
Yep; I pre wash it all. Went to a quilt shop once and found all sorts of littleones running around with snotty noses and wipping on the fabric. So-----I wash it all. I had pre ordered my fabric and it was already cut and bagged for me when I got there, thank goodness; but you never know. I usually try to stay away from any quilt shop with children running around like that plus the candy and cookies they had. Grand opening is fine but not all the time. I even wash my hands before looking at fabric or touching any of it. People in my guild don't wash their fabric; they say they want it crisp. I would hate to make a quilt and give as a gift and then wash it and the fabric run. Embarrrrsssssssiiinnnnngggggg!
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