Of course you do. It was a bad reference from Seinfeld, but it works... Anyhoo, I bought some black quilting cotton last week(?) for my PCQ foundation [reminder: utility quilt] that was, according to the bolt,
44"/45". Unfortunately I took the bolt at its word. I washed the fabric in cold water as I'm supposed to, to pre-shrink it. So I ironed it last night, layed it out to cut the foundation (bought enough for three tries just in case...) and find it's now only 42" wide. Now I/we expected shrinkage, but is 3" reasonable or do you think this stuff was not 44"/45" as represented? It's not going to kill anything - so I start with a 42" square foundation instead of 44"/ 45" - big fat hairy deal... I'm just curious if quilting cotton is usually prone to shrink that much...Next step is to hem the two rough edges to prevent fraying while I'm working on things...
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