Many thanks everybody for sharing your tips with me, I have visited Quiltville now and I am going to try the kitchen cloths too, I have not seen in New Zealand, the dryer sheets you mention. I am just having a play around with some of my scraps,I have never done these kind of methods before, I am quite excited with what I have discovered so far! When I think of all the small fabric scraps I have thrown out over the years! I won't be doing that again, they make the prettiest quilts!
Thank you all again!
Gal
PS
I like the idea of using ugly fabric too, this gives a whole new scope for those cotton shirts I pass up at the op shop because I don't think I could use the colour!