You Need to Prewash Your Fabrics!
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2024
- In this video, I'll explain why it's so important to pre-wash your fabrics before using them in your quilt projects. There is more than one reason why this is important and I'll explain these in the video.
#quilting #prewashfabrics #quiltingfabric
Mentioned in this video:
Retayne at amzn.to/2RT9Llo
Shout Color Catchers at amzn.to/3aqu546
Visit my Amazon store to check out my favourite and recommended quilting notions, gifts, and books at www.amazon.com...
You might also be interested in my curated list of free motion quilting books at kit.co/Chatter...
When I am able, I use affiliate links and might receive compensation if you purchase through one of these links.
I participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and as such earn from qualifying purchases. The price is the same for you, I just receive $$$ which allows me to continue creating free content for you. Thanks!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
If you're looking to improve your quilting skills and make new quilting friends, join The Quilter’s Way! The Quilter's Way helps quilters of all skill levels learn and grow in a fun, supportive community. Go to thequiltersway.com for more information.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
For more quilting goodness:
JOIN our email list to get FREE quilting information from Chatterbox Quilts at www.chatterbox....
🎶"Wouldn't you like to be a Chattie too?" 🎶 Become a Chattie by joining the FREE Chatterbox Quilts' Crew group at www.chatterbox...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
SUBSCRIBE to be notified when a new video has been released at / chatterboxquilter
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
YOU CAN ALSO FIND ME AT:
WEBSITE: www.chatterboxq...
FACEBOOK: / chatterboxquilts
PINTEREST: / cbquilts
INSTAGRAM: / chatterboxquilts
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Thanks for liking and sharing these videos with your fellow quilters.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
QUESTIONS? Contact me at kim@chatterboxquilts.com
![[LIVE] : ONE ลุมพินี 87 วันนี้!! คู่เอก "ก้องชัย vs โชคปรีชา"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YN6e7HVnekw/mqdefault.jpg)
Oh wow, she looks like Joyce Meyer.. amazing!!! Thanks for video 🎉🎉
this makes good sense. I'm back to ore-washing my fabrics. many thanks.
Good info. I almost always pre-wash my fabrics anyway. Mostly for shrinkage issues but also I don't like that "store smell". Thanks.
I don’t make quilts, but I will eventually. I make my own clothing. I definitely pre wash. There are many horror stories of what happens if you don’t before making clothing. But, today, a fashion designer I’m subscribe to, said don’t pre wash, there’s no need for it today. He said he’s been making clothes for over 40 years. Well, I assume he never used quilting cottons to make garments. I know that the 100% cottons I buy do shrink, & flannel even more. But pre washing is also good to remove the sizing and chemicals off the fabric.
I don’t believe that most dyes stains other clothes, except for red, i know red does though, like you said, and blues. I had done the hot water test on all my purples, no dye at all.
My husband washed our jeans, his were new jeans, when I got the jeans out of the drier, one of my bras that I hand wash) was caught on a Jean button, That we both didn’t see before. In the horror of removing it, my bright white bra was still bright white, that amazed me because, I had to stop the machine because it got unbalanced, as I balanced the jeans, there was blue water.
Thank you! Now I know what to order 😊. I haven’t had an issue “yet” but now I’m not taking any chances
Perfect!
You wash your fabric, then you apply sizing to make it nice and stiff to quilt….. how we love our quilting….I just made a small quilt, pre-washed the flannel but not the fabric. Used spray fixative and starch on the fabric, now I will wash it, I hope it does not make a mess. I have those sheets to prevent bleeding. i will let you know how I make out.
Thank you for more good information. I've always used vinegar to set the colors of red and navy. Can you comment on that method?
You can do that as well but it might not necessarily stop all the fabric bleeding. If you do set it with vinegar, I would do the colour fastness test before using it in a quilt to make sure that you won't still get additional bleeding.
Thank you Karen, I’ve seen a couple of videos pop up about prewash in., so you just confirmed for me that I need to do this🥴. Do you pink the edges before? Following prewashing the fabric do you throw it in dryer? do you sort your fabric by color?
I don't pink the edges first and yes, I dry it afterwards until it is almost dry and then take it out. I do light fabrics together and darks together with a Shout colour catcher. Kim
hi i don't know if you're going to see this but does this also work for silk because i plan to have a off white coat with red silk lining and i'm trying to stop it from bleeding before it's made into a coat there's a reason i want the lining to be red if it was a regular situation i would have picked white off white ivory or yellow
I'm not sure if it would - I would test a small piece of the silk to see what happens.
@@Chatterboxquilts will do thank you for letting me know
How do you keep fabric before washing? Do you serge them?
No, you can clip the corners on a diagonal to prevent fraying before you wash fabric. After washing, you just partially dry them, and then fold. You'll be ironing them before using them so no need to iron right away after washing.
How about using a little vinegar, our grammas used vinegar to prevent dye loss.
Yes, you could try this as well. I prefer the colour catcher sheets as I know that these will prevent that colour bleeding.
I prewash, doing so I discovered which name brand fabric manufactures have good quality fabric. Some brands have no fraying, other brands lots of strings. Also, for those of you who spray baste with 505 or other brand spray, read the directions. First step is to prewash your fabrics or quilt top. Isn't that interesting?
Do you use detergent when you pre wash?
Yes, I do. I use "normal" detergent, such as Tide.
Thanks! Always wondered if we had to use it. Enjoy your videos very much!😊
Does washing fabric cause them to fray? So you sew or serge before washing.
Do you have to wash every piece separately if they aren’t the same colors?
@@alicialaija1886 for sure wash your lights separately from darks.
How do you stop ravelling.
You will always get a bit of fraying when washing but if you are washing yardage, you can cut the corner on a small diagonal and this helps to prevent the fraying.
Do you recommend washing precuts before beginning a project?
This is a tough one. I don't usually recommend doing that for small ones such as jelly roll strips or charm packs. You can certainly pre-wash fat quarters with no problems.
I ordered a kit and it had 12" squares that I washed. They came out of the dryer 10"!! I had to do quite a bit of adjusting. The finished product was still beautiful. 😄