mumtoliam

I love buying kits - I have bought several. I choose the kits I want to buy because they suit the look I am after. I was looking for a quilt project for my bedroom and then I noticed the patchwork party block kits. One finishing kit was the perfect look I was going for. I am having so much fun in assembling it.

I have bought other kits because I wanted to use a fabric range and didnt know how to use it - and then I saw a kit with a project that suited my needs.

And another kit I purchased I wanted to try a technique and didnt know what would work doing that technique. Buying a kit was a perfect opportunity to see what how it comes together, with all colours perfect.

I love picking out my fabrics - but sometimes the kit fits my need. I dont prewash anyway so I dont mind, that the fabric isnt prewashed, and all kits I have purchased require the buyer to cut the fabric, they arent precut. I have only had one OPPS cutting moment but there has always been plenty of fabric to recorrect. I have baggies of off cuts left overfrom the kit projects,

Skeat

Amen Venessa!:0)Must be why they make so many kits to sell....we share those thoughts w/so many others!LOL Skeat

Sally Dolin

I believe we all do our own thing and that is the way it should be. I did make a few things with out pre-washing and this bow tie wall hanging I used in my office is the main reason for my washing rule for myself. I also would not like fabrics pre-wased except we also starch and iron them and they are as crisp for working with as if they had never been touched. For those of you pre-washers who are doing a lot of fabrics try using a garden sprayer to dispense the starch mixture. We use Sta-Flo 50-50. Starch/roll/put in plastic bag and freeze till we are ready for ironing.
My husband will never let me forget the time I was ironing brights and in the collection of bags I brought from the freezer was a bag of brocolli.