prewashed fabric shrinking weird?
Anyone else's fabric come out kind of wonky on the grain after prewashing for the quilting class? Mine looked fine dry then twisted up in the wash. Low key hoping it's not just me.
So gregory yeah this happened to me too lol, pulled mine out of the dryer and it was basically a parallelogram 😭 the teacher today said something about pulling it back "on grain" while its still damp? still trying to figure out how to actually do that
Thanks!
So Justin lol the parallelogram thing made me laugh, thats what happened to my fabric on the counter... pulling it while damp worked for me though, honestly just takes patience i think 🤙 Thanks
"parallelogram" is the correct technical term now lol.
prewashed mine and pulled it out still damp instead of letting it fully dry and that fixed the parallelogram fabric thing lol, didnt expect patience to be the answer here but here we are 🥲 thanks have fun!
Well I have to disagree a little bit here...I tried the pulling-while-damp trick after everyone swore by it and it made mine WORSE, it stretched a little cotton print I had cockeyed the other direction, like it just traded one crooked edge for another 😊 What worked for me was laying it flat on a towel and just gently squaring it up with my hands before it dried all the way, no pulling at all patting it into place. Patience for sure but I don't think the pulling part is what does it, could just be the fabric though, some of tehse quilting cottons are stubborn no matter what you do lol! Anyway just wanted to shaer since it went so differently for me!!
dang Pamela the towel trick sounds way less stressful honestly 😩 ✨
Ha yeah Pamela thats fair, Celeste got lucky I guess. towel and no pulling sounds smarter honestly. glad the class made us all obsess over grainlines lol Thanks!
wait i think im in the wrong thread lol, my brain read "grainline" as filament grain and got real confused for a sec 🙈 no fabric wisdom from me, just carry on Jeremy, towel method sounds solid though
Jeremy, that's the whole reason I'm glad this thread happened - grainline obsession is a a good obsession to have, it saves you a lot of pian three seams down the road... pamela's towel method is basically what I do too, hands do a better job than a hard ynak ever will.
Missing our Monday sessions already. sitting with my own stack at the kitchen table this week, feels quieter without everyone's block photos rolling in.
Hands over a hard yank, noted. 👍
yeah hands over yank is just good advice period. same thing applies to pulling drive belts. muscle memory over force every time
lol Justin same energy, i read "grainline" and thought printer calibration for a sec 🙈 Morgan the quiet kitchen table thing hit different, missing mondays too. hoping theres a fall round honestly :)
Noah, I love that this translates to drive belts too, honestly makes sense - fabric and machinery both punish you for rushing. gregory, that twist after washing is almost always grain settling into itself, not a flaw on your end!
Kelton, I'm hpoing for a fall round too. this kitchen table's missing the noise of everyone working through the same knot at once