One year I made a rag quilt for a gift. Of course my sewing projects waited til the end. So on xmas eve with 22 people coming, our main drain plugged up. Xmas morning I had to pay premium price and they came, dug up part of the driveway and cleaned it out. If your washer got plugged up you were lucky. I managed to plug up the washer felting some wool. Burned up the pump. From now on I felt wool in a large pot on the stove.
Rag quilts to the laundromat. Actually I don't do them anymore for that reason. Don't despair. You can still use your dies by laying a plain piece of flannel (for the back) batting for the filling, plain piece of flannel for the top. Then put your die cut pieces on top 1 piece leave a little between them in a nice even spacing up and down. Now cut a smaller square and clip the edges. Lay that piece in the centers of your larger blocks. Stitch around each square. Then bind. Much less flannel to fray. Fastest quilt of all time.[ATTACH=CONFIG]534871[/ATTACH] That is Miss Daisy, one of her favorite quilts.