Lots of blocks, but they are only little!
Lots more fun to play though when there is room for so many little blocks.
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One person’s opinion about washing fabric for quilts.
I agree with her.
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Lovely!
Billie,
Thank you!
Judy B
Yup…what Becky said. I stopped washing my fabric when I decided that I wanted the soft, antique look, and when I began hand dyeing fabric. I admit, I became lazy, and I should be more vigilant in washing commercial fabric.
Laura,
When you don’t wash sooner or later there is a hard lesson to be learned.
Judy B
Really pretty. Almost makes me want to do a Jane……almost.
Always have and always will wash fabric before using. I learnt to do it when making clothes. Nothing worse than making a perfectly fitted shirt and then wash it and have it shrink. Apart from that the sizing in unwashed fabric stinks.
Karen,
It is so long since I did a great amount of dress making that I had forgotten the problem with shrinking clothes! At the moment I have a different dressmaking problem … replacing elastic in just about every elastic-waisted item I own. It has all reached its used by date at the same time.
Judy B