Preparing Your Material for Your Next Quilt
Helping You Find The Best Preparing Your Material for Your Next Quilt Deals!

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 start, I have listed my pre-flight quilting checklist.

Read Any Instrutions

This is the most important step before anything else, I learned this the difficult way – which I will 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

When 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 must 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 which surprises a considerable number of quilters. Some material doesn’t react well to being put in bright daylight right after washing.

More commonly, there are more materials that will get damaged if you put them into a dryer, so make sure you know what you are dealing with.

Ironing

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

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

When you’re ironing, start from the center and push your iron out to the sides. Once the material is flat, run your iron over the sides to remove any little wrinkles and make it prepared for stitching 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.

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

categories: green quilt design,flower quilt,green bedspread,green patchwork,green quilt,green quilts,patchwork quilt,how to make a patchwork quilt,quilt,quilts