Originally Posted by Rose_P

I have occasionally made various 1/12 scale miniatures, and there is a wonderful, helpful group of people on the Small Stuff Digest. I have not made a quilt in that scale, but have seen some that are amazing. They are necessarily different from our usual efforts because batting is not in scale and would make a quilt stick out like a board on a mini bed. Even 1/8" seams would also tend to make it too stiff, so most use cheater fabrics and glued on unraveled bunka for "binding". Most fabric, in fact, is too stiff, and to get it to look "draped" they sometimes form it using fabric stiffener, or they sew it down to something. In this scale, a typical quilt is 7 1/2" square. There is not a lot of actual quilting that can be done in that amount of space to result in a realisting look, though some do make comforters that are layered with very thin fabric and tied. The usual fabric choice is much lighter than the quilting cottons we use in our somewhat larger scale.

This brings me to a question: when we call the small quilts we're making for these swaps "doll quilts", are we striving for something that is flexible enough to wrap softly around a doll? I saw some of those at the Houston International. To make it work like that, a layer of lightweight flannel inside would work better than Warm and Natural, and in smaller sizes, no batting layer at all. But the result would be something that would not hang nicely on a wall and would look thin and puny if used as a table topper. Probably we're not making doll quilts, per se? Is there a strict definition that I'm not clear on? I have a problem with the term "miniature" because people often use it to refer to scale miniatures, as in dollhouses.