testing new theories

[tielan]

So, I'm washing the next batch of quilting material in the washing machine right now. We'll see how it goes, because...well...I've never done this before, but the Birthday Blocks challenge I've joined requires you to wash the fabric before you make the blocks.

(Although in the case of the first two blocks, I'd already made them, so I'm going to try washing them.)

This is a bit of an experiment, but I suspect that fabric is more likely to shrink when you "wash it" in the manner of the USians, who put everything in the dryer.

We tend to hang-dry our washing (at least, in our house, we do - my mum puts most of her stuff in the dryer) so I don't think it gets as hot, and so it shouldn't shrink as much. That's the theory, anyway. Whether it works in practise...I don't know.

I also don't know how the quilts I've already made have stood up in the wash. Well, at least, I'm not 100% certain. saramund says that hers seems fine - a few seams came undone, but nothing that they didn't already know was going to be a problem in the first place.

I really need to do the edging on my own quilt...