{"id":19729,"date":"2013-08-19T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=19729"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:23:25","slug":"learning-never-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/learning-never-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Never Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/joel_dewberry_notting_hill_sateen_pristine_poppy_in_midnight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joel Dewberry Notting Hill Pristine Poppy (midnight)\" alt=\"Joel Dewberry Notting Hill Pristine Poppy (midnight)\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/joel_dewberry_notting_hill_sateen_pristine_poppy_in_midnight.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Dewberry Notting Hill Pristine Poppy (midnight)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I hate to shatter your illusions, but on many things I am no expert \ud83d\ude09 and can always learn something. Recently I bought some home dec fabric to make a bag (or a couple of bags, really). I got it and realized I didn&#8217;t know how to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>I always pre-wash. I even pre-wash Jelly Rolls and Layer Cakes. The smell of the chemicals from the fabric when I iron unwashed fabric makes me break out in a rash. I am <em>not<\/em> ranting or proselytizing; I am <em>not<\/em> telling you what I do. There are no quilt police on this blog. I encourage you to do whatever you want that allows you to make many, many quilts.<\/p>\n<p>I have made accessories and small items with home dec fabric before, but it wasn&#8217;t yardage. Mostly I used scraps from various sources, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabmo.org\" target=\"_blank\">FabMo<\/a>. I almost never buy home dec yardage so the question of pre-washing has never come up. Most of the home dec fabric I have used doesn&#8217;t smell (off gassing) by the time I get it, is in relatively small quantities and is made from specialty fibers so I don&#8217;t think of pre-washing.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the bags I want to make, I am going to be pressing a lot and don&#8217;t really want to wear a mask while I make the bag, thus the question of pre-washing came up. I contacted Lindsay and Charlie over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawthornethreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hawthorne Threads<\/a> and they pointed me to a <a href=\"Joel Dewberry Notting Hill Pristine Poppy (midnight)\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on Make It Love It.com. It talks generally about pre-washing, but not specifically about home dec fabric.<\/p>\n<p>I am using home dec fabric for the bag, because I want the added body and strength beyond quilt weight fabric. Will the finishes wash off and leave me with a limp mess? Can I replace the body\/finishes with Mary Ellen&#8217;s Best Press?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any ideas, thoughts, wisdom to share? By the time you read this I might have already washed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to shatter your illusions, but on many things I am no expert \ud83d\ude09 and can always learn something. Recently I bought some home dec fabric to make a bag (or a couple of bags, really). I got it and realized I didn&#8217;t know how to deal with it. I always pre-wash. I even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/learning-never-stops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning Never Stops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[315,110],"class_list":["post-19729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-fabric","tag-preparation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}