Originally Posted by
bearisgray
That's what we used to 'live in' - feed, flour, and sugar sacks were made of cotton!
I'm still not sure why 'not suitable for children's clothing' is stamped on some selvages of smooth, woven cottons.
FIRE! Quilting cotton doesn't have the fire stuff on it that children's clothing should have. It is one of the rules!!! We are quilters, NOT rule followers. I made my DD's & her BFF's clothing out of it and I also make my DGD's & her BFF's clothing out of quilters cotton also - and none of them have caught FIRE yet!!. I have found that clothing cottons can be too thin and when I've found the blends they are too HOT in AZ. So I've used quilting cottons for years and still do.