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Preparing Your Material for Your Next Quilt

Preparing your materials is a crucial starting step when you are starting a new quilt. You would not start an exciting new job in filthy attire, so why should your quilt be any different?

To get your quilt off to the best possible start, I have listed my pre-flight quilting checklist.

Read Any Instrutions

This is the most vital step before anything else, I learned this the hard way – which I’m going to tell you about later on.

The instructions will give you information about anything which will damage or affect the materials in the preparation process, so make sure you read all of the directions so you do not get caught out.

Washing

Once you’ve read the directions, your next stop is to wash the quilt. The directions will tell you whether its safe to put in the machine or whether you should hand wash it, as well as the temperature of water to use.

I was recently working on a green quilt design and did not go over the directions. As it seems, the particular dye they used for this material doesn’t handle warm water well and the colours ran and faded in areas, so be vigilant and check!

Drying

Drying is one of the things that surprises numerous quilters. Some material does not react well to being put in bright sunlight shortly after washing.

More usually, there are more materials which will get damaged if you put them into a dryer, so take care that you know what you are dealing with.

Ironing

Like drying, ironing is another step in which you can spoil a perfectly good fabric. Materials like silk and polyester will burn or melt if you use an iron that’s too hot.

There are too many materials to cover here, so in short if you’re in doubt, put your iron on the lowest setting just to be safe.

When you are ironing, start from the center and push your iron out to the edges. Once the material is flat, run your iron over the edges to eliminate any tiny wrinkles and make ready for sewing seams.

If you follow these steps, your material will be prepped and ready to be used in any quilt, removing any forseeable issues with the fabric itself.

Curious about more green quilt design ideas? Then head on over to Jane Green’s how to make a patchwork quilt site now!

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