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That depends!
The one I am just finishing is one twelfth scale of a full size quilt. One twelfth is the usual dolls house scale size. Mine is 7" x 9" finished: 48 log cabin blocks with a half inch border. Each log is 0.2" ggg. Yes, I know I'm mad ... fun isn't it?!! .. In article , Dr.Quilter writes a doll quilt? how big is it? if it is small enough, maybe some of us can send you leftovers of different battings so you can compare? or even a 10" square so you can make some potholders or coasters and test them.... I can provide W&N since it is the only one I recognize. That is, I've used hobbs and many other brands, I am sure, but since the remnants are all in a bag I don't know which is which. I once bough the softest most beautiful batting ever. it was kind of easy to disassemble though, if you pulled too much. no idea what brand it was and I cannot find it again... -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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"Sudrlg" wrote in message ... Hi Marissa re cotton vs poly batt. I use both - depending on what look I want. Sometimes I prefer fluffier, sometimes flatter, for kid quilts I only use cotton. I know you said "most" but I think lots of folks use poly batting and get good results. Hobbs and Quilters Dream - both known for good quality batting - manufacture poly and cotton. I am not a machine quilter, but I can see how it would be easier to use cotton for that technique. For hand quilting, I am happy with either - poly being slightly easier to use. I don't consider it "awful" at all. I usually use Hobbs 80/20 for cotton and Fairfield for poly - mostly because they are easiest to come by in my area, and I have never had a problem with either. I know poly can beard - but thankfully I have never had that problem. I am not sure if the bearding is because of a quality of the batt or the fabric - or both. Anyone have info on that? Hope you don't see this as argumentative - just an opinion, and a question. Deena - in Philly I agree - I use Quilter's Dream Poly for my (few and far between!) large quilts and I do machine quilt. I make zillions of quillows - probably close to eighty or ninety in the last ten years - and I use Fairfield traditional poly for them. Works fine. I have several that I use and wash and they still look good. The cottin is supposed to be good for machine quilting because it "grabs" the fabric. This is true, but I've found it more of a hindrance. The stuff (either Quilter's Dream cotton or Warm & Natural) sure did grab while I was trying to smooth it out. Aggravating! And sometimes it would hang up during quilting. Maybe it's a matter of technique, I don't know. I just find the poly perfectly easy to pin baste smoothly and I almost never have tucks. It washes well and seems to hold up. I guess we use whatever works best for us! Iris |
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I just love natural materials. I use only cotton fabric, cotton thread, so I
stick to (at least 80%) cotton batting as well. I have never had a problem hand quilting W&N, and it is the 'hardest' cotton batting I've seen. Maybe I would get more stitches to the inch if I used poly, but I feel this is better... I just abhor the feeling of all poly batting! And the only quilt I've made that has had bearding is the first one, in which I had no clue what I was doing and I used wallmart fabric and poly batting.... "Sudrlg" wrote in message ... Hi Marissa re cotton vs poly batt. I use both - depending on what look I want. Sometimes I prefer fluffier, sometimes flatter, for kid quilts I only use cotton. I know you said "most" but I think lots of folks use poly batting and get good results. Hobbs and Quilters Dream - both known for good quality batting - manufacture poly and cotton. I am not a machine quilter, but I can see how it would be easier to use cotton for that technique. For hand quilting, I am happy with either - poly being slightly easier to use. I don't consider it "awful" at all. I usually use Hobbs 80/20 for cotton and Fairfield for poly - mostly because they are easiest to come by in my area, and I have never had a problem with either. I know poly can beard - but thankfully I have never had that problem. I am not sure if the bearding is because of a quality of the batt or the fabric - or both. Anyone have info on that? Hope you don't see this as argumentative - just an opinion, and a question. Deena - in Philly |
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Aren't you sweet to suggest that! I bought some Hobbs 100% cotton batting
and some Hobbs 80/20 batting a while back when Hobby Lobby had it on sale for 1/2 price. I knew at some point I would use it! So I do have some batting. In fact I covered an old table with cotton batting and then muslin and I use it for an ironing table and also a cutting table when I add my rotary mat to it. The quilt I'm making is meant to be a wall hanging. It is a 30x30 nine patch. I got the pattern from an Alex Anderson beginner book. I am doing it in all pinks and purples for my granddaughter. It is almost big enough to be a lap quilt for her if she wants but it started out to be a large doll quilt. I made her a doll last Christmas and I've made some doll clothes for her dolls as well. This just seemed to be a good first quilting project for me. The one thing that surprised me about the batting is how thin it is. I don't know what I was expecting, but somehow I thought batting was thicker! I know you can buy some that is but I understand the traditional batting is easiest for quilting. Thank you so much for your very kind offer - I really appreciate it. I have some for now to get me started and I'm hoping since so many have said that Hobbs is good that what I have will work out well. Bonnie "Dr.Quilter" wrote a doll quilt? how big is it? if it is small enough, maybe some of us can send you leftovers of different battings so you can compare? or even a 10" square so you can make some potholders or coasters and test them.... I can provide W&N since it is the only one I recognize. That is, I've used hobbs and many other brands, I am sure, but since the remnants are all in a bag I don't know which is which. I once bough the softest most beautiful batting ever. it was kind of easy to disassemble though, if you pulled too much. no idea what brand it was and I cannot find it again... |
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Thanks so much for your help. I learn so much from everyone here! Much
more than I would ever learn from a book. Experience is always the best teacher! Bonnie "Dr.Quilter" wrote in message ... as far as I am concerned, there aren't many opposing opinions about cotton, poly, etc. I think almost everybody likes cotton better, maybe with a tad of poly, but most of us stay away from the awful all poly stuff. I do not prewash, but I like the wrinkled look.... I buy Warm and Natural and Hobbs but I've used other battings I liked better, too bad I have no idea what their name was... |
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Wow Patti! You must have good eyes! I have done some small doll clothes
sewing but it gets to my eyes after awhile! Will you have a picture to show? Bonnie "Patti" wrote in message ... That depends! The one I am just finishing is one twelfth scale of a full size quilt. One twelfth is the usual dolls house scale size. Mine is 7" x 9" finished: 48 log cabin blocks with a half inch border. Each log is 0.2" ggg. Yes, I know I'm mad ... fun isn't it?!! |
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Thanks Bonnie
I don't think it will get as far as a picture! It isn't very good - it was just an experiment really. I was using the soluble paper-piecing paper to see how good the dissolving was on such a tiny thing; and I wanted to see how feasible it was for *me* to do such a real tiny. I had in mind to do another two, but now I may not! It doesn't look as good as I hoped. I have great difficulty with fabric pattern scale, when doing my really small things. You know, it looks small - but turns out not to be small enough! .. In article , muse9 writes Wow Patti! You must have good eyes! I have done some small doll clothes sewing but it gets to my eyes after awhile! Will you have a picture to show? Bonnie -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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In article ,
"muse9" wrote: Wow Patti! You must have good eyes! I have done some small doll clothes sewing but it gets to my eyes after awhile! Will you have a picture to show? Bonnie "Patti" wrote in message ... That depends! The one I am just finishing is one twelfth scale of a full size quilt. One twelfth is the usual dolls house scale size. Mine is 7" x 9" finished: 48 log cabin blocks with a half inch border. Each log is 0.2" ggg. Yes, I know I'm mad ... fun isn't it?!! Omigosh! Pat, that sounds like an exercise in how to get a headache quickly! g I'd love to see the finished mini! -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
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Ha!
It's a headache all right! but not in the sense you mean! The scale of the fabric patterns is wrong; the soluble paper-piecing paper didn't properly dissolve; I decided to sew it all together before I took the papers off. I cut the little borders without realising that the piece I cut them from (which had a straight edge on it) had been cut on the cross! I even had to re-think my original quilting pattern, when I realised the foot was obscuring the points I was going to aim for!! All in all a chapter of accidents. However, since it was pretty experimental, I'm glad I got all these out of the way in one go!! I don't think it will merit a picture, unless I decide to put a little section in about 'those that got away'!!! .. In article , Sandy Foster writes Omigosh! Pat, that sounds like an exercise in how to get a headache quickly! g I'd love to see the finished mini! -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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When I first started quilting, I used the polyester stuff. I didn't
realize that the batting was the reason that my backing shifted and puckered. After learning about it from this group, I tried Warm & Natural (now I usually use Warm & White) and was hooked. I have never had a backing shift and pucker since. It also feels so much nicer than the polyester. I buy it 10 yards at a time at JoAnn's when they have all battings 50% off. Kim "muse9" wrote in message ... I am finally making good progress on my very first quilt top! I am using a 9 patch pattern from an Alex Anderson beginner quilting book. The piecing is going well; I'm learning a lot and loving it!!! In fact I find I have to stay away from my sewing room unless I know I have the time to sew because it seems to magnetically pull me in and keep me for hours at a time! This pattern is for a 30x30 wall hanging but I am making it for a large doll quilt/lap quilt for my DGD. As I get closer to finishing the piecing I know I need to think about the batting I will use for this quilt. I've read so many conflicting opinions on cotton versus poly or cotton and poly blends. I'm sure this question has come up many time before but I am still fairly new here and could really use some opinions. Since this is a doll quilt for a child it will get somewhat rough usage and will need to be washed occasionally. I read on the bag that cotton batting will shrink - is this a big problem? I also read that if you use cotton batting you have to quilt fairly close together and since I'm totally new at this and don't have much faith in my quilting abilities this concerns me. Does one batting hold up better than another? I will be machine quilting so is one better than the other for that? This small quilt is my first "training quilt". I got mentally hooked on quilting several months ago and have been soaking up whatever information I could on the subject. Some of the best information I've received has been right here with all of you! I would greatly appreciate any hints or help regarding batting! Thank you all so much! Bonnie |
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