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Posted by Sandy Ellison on January 25, 2007, 4:14 pm
Howdy!
I use laundry soap to wash all the quilting fabric
that comes into this house (my skin can't handle the rough
finishing chemicals). W/ a good wash & rinse in the machine
there's not enough soap left in the fabric to notice or worry
about (there's an extra rinse cycle, too, if I need it);
I'd know if there was soap residue in the fabric.
Now stop second-guessing yourself, Sherry, and get the back on that
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quilt. <g> It'll be just fine, especially hand-quilted. ;-)
Good luck!
Ragmop/Sandy -- Finished is my favorite kind of quilt
On 1/25/07 8:49 AM, in article
1169736576.011926.177950@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Sherry"
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> D'oh. I didn't even think about deterioration of the fabric over time.
> I was just thinking of the immediate, if I managed to pull it off and
> get the right color, mission accomplished.
> It's pointless to spend the $$ for better-quality backing just to
> weaken it with bleach.
> Janet mentioned detergent also staying in the fabric. You don't use
> detergent to intially wash the fabric? I usually use a miniscule
> amount, I thought it was necessary to wash all the sizing and junk out
> of the fabric. Do you just wash in plain water?
> And now I've stared at this fabric too long that I 'm really
> second-guessing the choice. The tone-on-tone part seems heavier than
> most. I wonder if it's going to be hard to hand-quilt.
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> Sherry
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> Sherry
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