1/4" Shrinkage After Starching!!!
09-18-2011, 04:33 AM
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I know how you feel! I do not like to wash and press fabric before making a quilt. Most of the time I buy high quality, high thread count fabric so the shrinkage is very minimal but when I buy cheaper fabric I've learned the hard way like you....it pays to preshrink the fabric.
Don't toss out the fabric...save the scraps for a scrap quilt someday. What is the saying? When life throws you scrap...make a quilt!
Don't toss out the fabric...save the scraps for a scrap quilt someday. What is the saying? When life throws you scrap...make a quilt!
09-18-2011, 06:04 AM
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Are the three inch strips the same material? Did you do them after you had starched and pressed the others? Just wondering if there was a learning curve with how much starch, or if a different material worked.
Originally Posted by Krystyna
How peculiar is this: the 3" strips are just fine!
09-18-2011, 08:27 AM
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Hi Krystyna,
I assume you are taking the LIQS workshop, by the time you read this you will already be in the class. I hope that Linda left some leeway in the measurements. I took a class with Linda Hahn several years ago and had a great time, and really learned a lot.
If she didn't leave enough room in the cut pieces, remember you can always copy the pattern and shrink it so you can use the fabric you already cut.
Let us know what happened. I hope your class goes well!
(I've done things like you just did!!!!!!)
I assume you are taking the LIQS workshop, by the time you read this you will already be in the class. I hope that Linda left some leeway in the measurements. I took a class with Linda Hahn several years ago and had a great time, and really learned a lot.
If she didn't leave enough room in the cut pieces, remember you can always copy the pattern and shrink it so you can use the fabric you already cut.
Let us know what happened. I hope your class goes well!
(I've done things like you just did!!!!!!)
09-18-2011, 10:11 AM
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Wetting down your fabric is almost the same as washing in hot water and drying in a hot dryer. That is why you had the shrinkage.
In my first quilting class, I didn't follow instructions when they asked me to prewash my fabrics. So the teacher made me wet down my fabric and iron them dry to get the most shrinkage out of the fabric.
Also, you always starch your fabric BEFORE you cut, as it makes rotary cutting your fabric so much easier.
Sorry this happened to you. Sometimes learning can be painful, but you will only make this mistake once. The more painful the experience the better you remember the next time.
In my first quilting class, I didn't follow instructions when they asked me to prewash my fabrics. So the teacher made me wet down my fabric and iron them dry to get the most shrinkage out of the fabric.
Also, you always starch your fabric BEFORE you cut, as it makes rotary cutting your fabric so much easier.
Sorry this happened to you. Sometimes learning can be painful, but you will only make this mistake once. The more painful the experience the better you remember the next time.
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