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To wash or not to wash?

Hi Sunny,

I wash my gift quilts when they are finished. 1.) I have a cat who insists on lying on every piece; 2.) I tend to lay my quilts on the carpet while we figuring the final layout; 3.) it takes me so long to finish a quilt, I'm sure it's collected dust if nothing else; 4.) sometimes I use spray basting which needs to be washed out; and 5.) I don't want the recipient(s) to get used to the unwashed look and then think there is something wrong with the quilt when they wash it.

Michelle > Question: when giving a quilt for a gift, do you wash it first or not?

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desert quilter
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If the quilt is for a baby, please wash it first.

Rhoda

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R. E. Wicker

Personally, I wash a quilt before giving it or using it. I know where it has been, and frequently that includes the floor, the car, and who knows where else. I have probably dripped sweat on it, and the cats may have managed to lay on it. Also, I frequently do not prewash fabrics, and I want whatever to happen to happen before I "gift" it. Also, since a lot of my quilts lately have been hanging in the shop as class samples, they are probably dusty. (Arizona is a *desert*, we have dust and it gets everywhere. That is a fact of life.) I also spray baste, and may have used some water soluble glue on the quilt somewhere. I want all that out before someone uses the quilt.

It is up to you to decide what to do. But I like people to know that the quilt is washable, and how. And that I have washed it already. It's your quilt, so you decide.

Pati,> Question: when giving a quilt for a gift, do you wash it first or not?

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Pati Cook

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Pat in Virginia

Good one, Pat. =D

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blackrosequilts

Howdy!

*snorfle* Good one, Pat.

*sniff*sniff* I'm so proud.

Ragmop/Sandy--Queen of the Beggars

p.s. I wash everything. If it can't stand up to the washing it doesn't need to stay at my house. This includes the upholstery & drapery fabric that comes free from the drapery shop's "Come & get it!" Dig. Then I use those blue marking pens I'm always recommending, they have to be washed out of the Finished quilts. And I want to see what the Finished Quilt looks like all clean and sparkly and ever'thang

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Sandy Ellison

NO FAIR!!!!!!!!! you have been pra'ticin when I was away :( MMMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Pat's not being fair :( You coudda waited....jez fer that....you jez wait and see

Butterfly ( got no time to go poutin, not right now, anyhows)

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Butterflywings

I usually wash it for a number of reasons.

1) to get rid of the QI hair that my very helpful inspectors have left behind. (I love them, but a new baby might night)

2) to get rid of any stray marking lines, etc.

3) so the recipient want panic the first time she washes it and it crinkles up.

Maureen

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:21:20 -0500, S wrote (in article ):

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Maureen Wozniak

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