Originally Posted by
charlottequilts
No, but there are a lot of literal people out there, and it does sound professorial. Just saying.
Fair comment
Sort of like Dr. Phil doesn't have a doctorate either?
Originally Posted by
crocee
Poly is cheaper to make so more profit. <snip>
Possibly, but it's also less expensive on the average even at the consumer level. I paid $3.75 for a mini spool of Glide (1000m I think. It's downstairs and I'm feeling lazy), and on average I pay about $8 for a 1300m spool of Aurifil cotton. No, not apples to apples, but the only Aurifil Poly I've bought was on an awesome sale from Tristan, I don't even know the retail on it.
Cotton doesn't melt and has been found in the pyramids. Its stood the test of time.
This brings up another point - certain climates will be better suited to the use of cotton specifically because it's a natural fiber. It rots if not kept in the right conditions. (Can it mold too?) Poly won't do this. (See my comment previously
about the museum quilts)
I'm not saying poly is superior, I'm saying there's a right tool for each job.
Most of the quilts I make are going to be hard used and short lived (charity quilts, stepped on, stretched, used for play forts, used as superman capes, camping, etc), and I think the poly will stand up better so that's what I use. The fact that Lucey likes it and is very friendly to use with poly is a bonus.
For my Aphrodite quilt which may end up a show quilt and likely seldom used or often hung, it will likely be cotton thread for the surface design.
At the end of the day, we have to make our decisions based on the information we have available to us at the moment. If it turns out to be wrong down the road, so be it. We made the best choice with what we we knew.
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