front loader prewash batting ?

Has anyone ever tried this with warm & natural or warm & white?

I now have access to a tumble dryer, and would love to go back to having the option of preshrinking my batting.

Thanks, Hanne > Gen is right Jack. =A0I don't hate the shrink look on most of my

I *always* pre-wash and pre-shrink the 'Warm &' battings using hot water in my front loader and a hot dryer- I've gone thru almost 5 forty yard bolts of the stuff over the years. I found the Warm & White pilled some and I never had that happen with the Warm & Natural. Just a bad bolt of the white? I dunno but I do prefer the Natural since that happened.

I've finally got all moved and now I'm remodeling and painting- no reading, Taria! And no sewing, either. :-(

Leslie & The Furbabies getting settled into our new/old house in Willow Springs, MO.

I now have access to a tumble dryer, and would love to go back to having the option of preshrinking my batting.

Thanks, Hanne > Gen is right Jack. I don't hate the shrink look on most of my

Howdy!

The first Plum book had the best of Grandma Mazur, imo. Too much same ol' - same ol' in the rest of the books, repeating the same theme, doofus woman flailing her way thru' life in heat. I keep reading them to get to the Grandma stories, then trying to make up for wasted time. ;->

(audio books while quilting is a good combo)

Pre-washing batting: well, T asked about front loader washers; my washer is the standard top loader; I put the batting (Hobbs Heirloom, of course) in the washer on delicate/hand wash cycle, full load of water, spin dry (gentle) and into the dryer. So far, no problems, just a nice soft wad of lovely quilt batting. mmmmm But, mostly, I just use the batting cut right off the bolt; w/out being stuffed into a small plastic bag, the batting from the roll/bolt is already soft & unwrinkled. Not enough chemicals on it to bother my hands. Good luck!

R/Sandy - prefer the Southern Sister mysteries:

Howdy!

The t.v. series of these books is pretty good, try> One of my favorites! Just bought (I think) the latest one, Miracle at

I really liked this series of books and have been reading them as they come out in paperback. Didn't like his other series quite so much though - the one based in Scotland. For a good Scottish read I like Ian Rankin and his Rebus series.

Allison

Sandy Ellis> Howdy!

I preshrunk some warm and white and I think it pills much more that W/N. I spray basted and had a heck of a time with tiny pieces of batting all over my rings, and anything else that got in the way. I'll stick to plain old W/N from now on. Gen

If you like Gramma Mazur, you need to read Earlene Fowler's series. The grandmother in there, Dove, is so funny that when I see her name coming I make sure I run to the bathroom. Been known to wet my pants. I met Earlene a couple of years ago at Road to California, Dove is based on her grandmother and some of her grandmother's friends. She tells the story that her grandmother was 93 and out in the front yard when she had a heart attack. When the EMT's got there they asked her what she was doing when she had the pain, she looked right at them straight face and told them she was doing what every 93 yo does-- go outside to bash the heads of the gophers.

Debbi in SO CA

Polly Esther wrote:

I'll second that. Dove's a wee bit more civilized-acting than Grandma Mazur, but that might just be the southern (Arkansas) influence in her history, while G. M. is all Joisey. :)

--pig

Thanks for the good review. I will probably re-read the first two books since it has been so long.

Susan

Sounds good! What kind of washing program do you use? As in how rough, and how long, what kind of spin speed? Since good batting is hard to get by here, I'd hate to waste any by shredding in the wash!

Thanks, Hanne

Hanne, I use the regular wash cycle (and a 'short wash' time) since that's how I treat my finished quilts. I use the fast spin to remove as much water as possible. I don't baby the batting and it's never fallen apart. Maybe the white was offended by such use and pilled-up in objection to that treatment? VBG

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Thanks, Hanne

Leslie,

That sounds really good. I think I have mostly warm & natural left anyway :-)

Thanks! Hanne

One more little detail- frequently check your dryer's lint filter. I seem to recall the batting does a fair amount of lint shedding. But then, after buying a house and moving for the past coupla weeks, my mind is as tired as my poor ol' body and who knows if I'm remembering correctly??? (But I'm having a blast with my new/old house and getting it all 'me'.)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

That sounds really good. I think I have mostly warm & natural left anyway :-)

Thanks! Hanne

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:15:54 -0500, Susan Laity Price wrote (in article ):

I've been working my way through the whole Stephanie Plum series. I started reading "To the Nines" yesterday and was laughing out loud at the Lula all-meet diet and the scenes in Vegas. Too funny!

Thanks for the suggestion for the next series for me to read.

Maureen

I'm guessing that the Warm and natural are tougher than a lot of battings out there. I think some of the more delicate ones might just fall apart a lot easier. The farther apart you can quilt would probably be an indicator of how delicate they are maybe? Warm products take about the least quilting needed I think. Has anyone had a batting that fell apart when they were prewashing? If so what brand/product was it? Good luck with the settling in Leslie. Sounds like a lot of work! I hope this house will be a great home for you and the furbabies. Taria

Leslie& The Furbabies > Hanne, I use the regular wash cycle (and a 'short wash' time) since

Ah, good point. The dryer is also one of the condensing (?) kind - that is, there is a container which fills with water as the dryer is running. That might need checking too.

Thanks aga> One more little detail- frequently check your dryer's lint filter. =A0I s= eem

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