Washing and drying flannel fabric for quilting
10-13-2017, 05:07 PM
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You can minimize fraying by just washing in the shortest cycle. On my machine, that's the delicate cycle. I get hardly any strings since I switched to doing that. Any bleeding will take place within that short period.
10-16-2017, 07:02 AM
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I serge the raw edges of fabric with a big, "loose" stitch (3 thread) before it gets put in the washing machine - if I am feeling very frugal, I can easily remove the stitching and lose NO fabric at all. Of course, the needle holes are still there, but they would usually be covered by a seam allowance.
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