On Monday we started our third quilt along project this year, the Prism Path baby quilt. This baby quilt is very fast to piece and even faster to machine quilt.
Many
quilter’s skip this step and rush straight to piecing because washing, starching, and pressing fabric can takes extra time.
But if you want to make a baby quilt that can actually be USED by a real baby which means being covered in spit-up, peed on, drug around the house, stomped on the floor, etc., then it will need to be washed.
If you want to wash your quilt with confidence and never have to worry about the dyes bleeding or fabrics going weird, then you must wash
your fabric before cutting it into pieces for your quilt.