Thanks for the tips! I am off to get fabric for washcloths to match the baby towel I just finished. It was a pleasure to watch you, you have such a pleasant personality and the little laugh at the end was contagious! So off with a smile I go....
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Why do these presenters not tell viewers to preshrink their cottons? All cotton fabrics shrink, some a little, some a lot. Flannel shrinks rather a lot. If you cut flannel and another cotton fresh from the store, sew them together, and then wash them, they could shrink totally different amounts, and your piece will be a mess. I hot-wash and hot-dry all cotton fabrics before I use them, because I want the shrinkage to happen before I cut out pattern pieces and not after. For cotton flannel I hot-wash and hot-dry _twice_ before cutting out. You lose an inch or two per yard in length, but the fabric fluffs up and becomes much nicer, and your finished article will never shrink in the wash and become ruined.
