Originally Posted by
homebody323
Question for katier825. Why use a stretch stabilizer and have to put it opposite the stretch of the t-shirt when you can use a light weight non stretch backing. I use the 904ff I think that's the # by pellon and the stretch is gone. Many of my customers bring t-shirt quilts with stretch stabilizer that I then have to deal with because they oops and put it on with the stretch of the t-shirt. I've always wondered why they did that or who told them to. I suspect they read it in a book somewhere. Not my favorite way to do it.
Why go with the tricot? No one "told me to"...I had read several tutorials and decided to follow with the one that used the tricot stabilizer. I had debated which to use, but thought that it would be easier to quilt through and result in a softer feel than the non woven fusible. It came out great and I have no regrets. I always quilt my own quilts (minus the one in my avatar that Charisma did for me), so I didn't even consider what someone else would want to work with.
Like anything else in quilting...there is usually more than one way to do something. It doesn't mean it's right or wrong...just different.