Our church's annual "garage sale" is going on now, and I glomed onto some really nice cotton fabrics for my stash! I bought every hunk that was cotton, of course, and wound up with almost 15 yards for $4.50. Some had apparently been washed, and some had not, so all of them are in the washing machine now, and will be dried, ironed, folded, and added to the stash this evening.
You Are Very Brave Mary ,, when i buy New cottons [or any other cloth] , i wash them first by hand SEPARATELY ,, not knowing if one will Leak a color etc,,,,, Do you know what you are going to go with the `Treasure` ? mirjam
I wash fabrics by machine in cold water and never seem to have much problem other than with the occasional red, and if a red runs it shows on the other fabrics, which I simply re-wash separately. (And that hunk of red is set aside and not used in any quilt -- ever! Reds that run usually wind up in dog bandanas in various sizes that go to the local animal shelter for them to sell along with other dog-related goodies -- my dog already has plenty!)
I'm not sure what I'll do with the fabrics I found today, but they'll wait in the stash with the others. At some point they'll probably wind up in sampler blocks. In recent months I've begun to make random
12" blocks in all sorts of patterns and color combinations, and putting them away. About once every two or three of weeks when I want to take a break from a current project, I get out the fabric stash, set up the sewing machine, and spend an evening making blocks all in different patterns, so the pile of blocks is building up nicely. Most of the blocks will eventually be part of sampler quilts, while others may wind up in throw pillows or tote bags.
Mary you are lucky if new cloths don`t bleed color ,, I have learned to wash then separately first ,,, I like your idea of making some random blocks ,,, mirjam
Great buy, Mary!
Higs, Katherine
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