Thread: Shirtings - What Does This Mean?
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Old 11-30-2011, 08:00 AM
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Peckish
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Originally Posted by Chele View Post
The mysteries I've done that called for shirtings, meant lighter colors of quilting cotton. Whites, creams, light tans. They could have small prints too. This blog has a photo: http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/2011/...-progress.html
Originally Posted by sandy l View Post
To me, shirtings prints were allways small (what I call "ditzi" prints) on white, off-white, tan or cream. Sorta of like some of the 30's prints.
I agree with both of these statements. You probably won't find these types of fabrics in a LQS that caters to the "modern" quilters, but you should find them easily in the civil war/repro type of LQS. I know of one shop locally that has them in stock on her clearance shelves, it's a bummer she doesn't have an online shop!
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