annievee

Love your quilt, good job

Bree123

Thank you all for your responses -- especially jokir44. I have spent many hours studying properties of cotton but know almost nothing about silk. This quilt is for my 4yo niece, but I make 100% cotton baby quilts and understand how to make them durable and washable. I usually expect them to be washed in cold water/dried on low heat once a week. With quilting at 2" apart, that should hold up for 20+ years without issue; denser quilting lasts up to 50 years. But my concern with this quilt is that everywhere except over the applique, I never have quilting more than 1.125" apart and typically it's much closer than that so that will mean a lot of stress would be put on the applique fabric & stitching.

I am really just wanting to be done with this quilt. It's the first time I didn't follow a pattern & it's been super challenging. It's a combination of 5 different quilts that I pulled from/modified for different parts of it & has been a great learning experience but I'm growing more eager to just be done with it by the minute and was more than willing to buy 2 spools of silk thread so I didn't have to change colors 13x, but it sounds like that's what I'm going to be doing. Argh! So much for finishing the dreadful thing this month. I do think I'm going to at least spend the $30 for a pack of Bernina bobbins. Only having 5 & needing to keep unwinding & rewinding with a new color is getting old fast.

lynnie

my only thoughts are "WOW, amazing"

liking quilting

I've loved using the Bottom Line silk also. Love your quilt and hope you'll show us your finished product (after quilted).