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What shouldn't I share? I would not recommend throwing your fabric in the dryer after pre washing. Dryers tend to over shrink due to the heat. If you have spent hours sewing something with love, you probably won't be throwing it in the dryer when you wash it anyway. If you just must use a dryer on the finished garment, then throw your fabric in but do so at your own risk. Keep some white scraps of fabric handy and throw some in when pre washing. That way you can easily see if any of the color transfers onto other fabrics.
This is especially important if you are going to be color blocking your designs. Further Reading: How to Test for Colorfastness. It is a good idea to serger or zig-zag the edges of the fabric before washing as some fabrics fray badly on the edges during the wash. If you are using a zig-zag, do a wide stitch of length 4 and width 6. A 3 step zig-zag may eliminate any bunching up of a regular zig-zag on fine fabrics.
After you have finished pre washing your fabric might look a little sad and crumpled. Give it a gentle press using a water spray and it will look good as new! Trim any annoying excess fraying and you are ready to start cutting the fabric for sewing. If you are worried about what your fabric will look like after pre-washing you can just test a little scrap instead of the entire piece. This method is often used in commercial production as it is impractical to wash hundreds of meters of fabric at once.
Cut a square 4 x 4 inches 10x10cm. Wash it using your chosen method machine or hand wash putting it in with a scrap of white fabric to test the color dyes.
For no shrinkage, I normally wouldn't wash the full amount of fabric. For really large productions you might use this testing method for a yard or meter instead of a small scrap.
It just depends on the consequences of shrinkage and how much fabric you can sacrifice for testing. So now you can make a great decision about pre washing and save yourself from frustration later on. I shall cast the first comment — My answer is sometimes.
They are washed the moment they come in the house rather by mail or in-store purchases. I used to not prewash ponte knits until I made a fantastic wrap skirt from a black ponte and it shrunk and distorted on first wash.
You sound totally organised with your pre-washing system! Oooo thank you for this. I might have to try some African wax prints! The test square is a great way to let you know what sort of fabric you are working with, I hope it helps! I mostly wash a swatch to see what happens.
However, prewashing is fairly new to me so I do have shelves of unwashed fabric that have been sitting for years.
I have a lot of stored fabric too, and some of it is so old I cannot remember the fibre content, so washing a swatch tells me what to do! I do prewash those fabrics that will be washed once sewn. Unfortunately, even that does not always stop future shrinkage. Rather annoying! Continual shrinkage is so annoying! Thanks, I hope it is of help — even if you still always pre-wash, washing a test square gives you an idea of what to expect.
I am in the habit of throwing things in the wash as soon as I get them home but I will definitely consider not washing crepes or shifty type fabrics in the future as I already have enough problems cutting them out precisely! Thanks so much for writing up this post!
The one reason I always want to prewash is because my mom had her home infested with bugs from fabric she bought. We never know the path these fabrics take to our homes and would be appalled at the conditions in places they are stored. I prewash to check for colour fastness too.
When I ironed it I discovered it had long tears up and down the length of the selvedge, cm in — they were very hard to find in the large scale print but quite obvious while ironing. I prewash. I sew natural fibres which can shrink. I also hang fabrics to air-dry very carefully to avoid distortion of the weave. I never use a drier on clothes anyway. Shrinking aside here are a few reasons why I pre-wash.
I live in the tropics. Clothes get washed to death here. Pre-washing gives a pretty good indicator of how the fabric will wear over the life of a garment. I have ridiculously sensitive skin and am prone to respiratory tract allergies. I can react to some sizings. If the colour runs I want to know about it beforehand. I use a colour catcha sheet in the wash with the fabric, which shows if the colour runs. Non-pre-washed fabric can make my skin can react.
It can also make a fabric more impervious to water, making it less breathable. I need breathable! Interesting topic. Thanks for that Jason! I did have it wrong in my original draft, and thought I changed all the details to be correct — obviously not! I imagine some fabric from TradeMe could have been stored for a long time, so washing it sounds a good idea.
I guess the fabric content is sometimes a mystery too! I found your insight into RTW interesting. This is fascinating! While that sounds paradoxical why does she add more laundry to the laundry mountains? I also love pre-washing linen, because it just seems to get softer and nicer every wash.
Thanks for the post! A great post! And lived reading the comments too. Looking forward to giving it a go. Wondering what to do for the best. Pulled thread along Crosswise grain and when I matched selvedge, crosswise wonky and fabric rippling. Would love to know what you would advise Sheryll. Thank you for this! I just did a test on some linen. I want to sew linen clothing to sell at markets and such and the thought of washing yards of linen then ironing then cutting then sewing just seems silly.
I found that its a about 2. My patterns are pretty loosely fit as linen designs tend to be. Love your blog! Definitely going to attempt the Ruby slip at some point too. Very interesting post. I always pre-wash because I am scared not to, but the point about fabric going off grain after washing and pressing is absolutely a factor.
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