Comments | ravan: Quilts, Tradition, and the Quilting Craze

ravan

Quilts, Tradition, and the Quilting Craze

Feb 24, 2010 01:25

So, this last weekend we went to a Sew, Craft and Quilt show. I hoped we'd find some bargains on fabric - you know, below the $5.99 - $9.99 a yard that the fabric stores are charging as regular price for plain cotton single side prints and solids. Seriously, I have a gut level aversion to paying more than $4/yard for a single-sided light-weight ( Read more... )

sewing, business, crafts, fabric

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norsebiker43 February 24 2010, 16:37:01 UTC

Heh.
My wife went and said much the same. She did find a couple things that will help finish out a couple of quilts. But over all she has had better luck at JoAnne's.

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ravan February 24 2010, 21:42:33 UTC

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one with that perception.

ladyqkat February 24 2010, 18:17:06 UTC

Hmmmm.

When we swap sordak's office and the sewing room, I know we have a lot of scraps of mostly cotton byt some 'mystery' content material. Since I intend to pare down the over-accumulation of stuff, and I know you will put it to good use, you will receive a 'care' package if you would like it.

Some of the stuff is literal pieces that I consider to be too much fabric to discard, but not enough of a piece or an odd shape or too thin but very long. Some is weird fabric that you might be able to use for trim or such. I know there is some cotton upholstery velvet as well as trigger, denim and corduroy.

Might be ready to ship off in a couple of months because we are somewhat dependent on our helper's schedules.

ravan February 24 2010, 21:41:37 UTC

*Squeeeee*!!!

I'll make sure you have my San Jose address.

Yes, those kinds of scraps and stuff make for very nice pouches and pieces. Two 8 x 9 pieces of a nice, but emo, fabric make a nice outside of a drawstring pouch, for example.

Fabric goldmines jemyl May 1 2010, 09:35:46 UTC

Hi Lamb, Might I dare to suggest the Goodwill store, yard sale clothing and the like? People sell or give away old table cloths all the time because they have a wine spot or the like. Also, for backing a quilt, your German, English great grandma Moore did the following -- an old blanket, cotton or fleece was the filling and the outer backing was a sheet which matched the predominant color of the quilt. Then she simply used yarn ties to grace each block as her quilting, or she hand quilted the layers together. Another possible backing is a lightweight cotton blanket, pre-shrunk, of course. Same for the sheet,by the way. For the traditional way to make those fancy geometric things was to use light or dark fabrics, not matching ones necessarily. It was the color value and not the pattern of the fabric that would match and it was nice when there could be enough of one print to have some duplication there. I still have your baby quilt that she made for you packed away carefully, by the way. Love you my Ravan beauty. I'm broke by ( ... )