Well, that was a pretty good senior moment this morning, wasn't it? I told you I was curious about the "wash immediately", which I did, and then I didn't tell you how it turned out...dahhh! Our rain has turned to sunshine, and here is an outdoor shot of the finish friday quilt. As you can see, there isn't much wrinkle or pucker. I stuffed it into the washer on Perma Press, added my regular laundry soap(Please do not attempt this with the best of the best), set it for 4 minuted and let it go. It washed, wrinsed, spun and finished. And trust me, the washer in my little townhouse wouldn't be my first choice. It is one of those that works up to down instead of side to side..boy, oh boy, what it does to pants legs and fabric yardage!! Anyway, I shook it out, and then tossed it into the the dryer with 3 dryer sheets, on Perma Press and set it for 50 minutes. It came out just like you saw it this a.m. and in this full length picture A year or twos worth of dust and fingerprints gone, any chalk or blue pencil lines gone. All fresh and clean and looking pretty good for a scrappy utility quilt. But in the scheme of thing, I DON'T aggitate the fine hand quilting ones, just let them sit, use my arms to push up and down a few times, and spin them out. With the perle cotton there is much less chance of thread breaking.