How to Prewash Your Quilting Fabric
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Personally, I don’t think drying in a dryer is the thing that shrinks the fabric.
For example, I just experimented with silk dupioni and soaked one 6 inch square in cold water, and one 6″ square in hot water.
Both squares shrunk more than 3/4″ and neither were dried in the dryer. Getting the fabric wet was all that needed to happen.
Really the thing to worry about more is the dyes bleeding. You might even want to presoak your fabrics in the tub before washing.
Quick question — I don’t have a dryer; I hang everything to dry. Does this prevent it from shrinking properly? Quilts I keep for myself, this is moot, as they never get machine dried either, but for gifts, inevitably, the new owner will want to put it in a dryer at some point, and I worry having not preshrunk the fabric at the outset is setting them up for problems later.
– Jo
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