I'm finally finishing the free-form pieced flannel quilt top I started making several years ago. It started when my mom sent me a large box filled with strips and squares and .... blobs .... of gorgeous flannel fabric. She started to make a quilt, cut everything "wrong" and stopped right there and sent the resulting pieces to me. I've just been puttering with them, putting a few together here and a few there. Now I've got a twin sized quilt top. And I want to put it on a really soft piece of wooly fleece. Big question, should I wash/shrink the quilt top before quilting it onto the fleece, which won't shrink a bit? There was no way I was going to wash the hundreds of individual strips and pieces of flannel in the box Mom sent me. Now, with it all sewn together, I think it will survive a washing. But I wanted to throw out the question before going further.
Sunny