Originally Posted by
RN-Quilter
My pet peeve is fabric snobs....those who use ONLY, DEFINITELY and ABSOLUTELY 100% quilting cotton.
"Oh...you spend so much time on it...use only the best of everything to make it worth your time.."
They forget where and how and why quilts were made.
It seems people have taken the poor man's blanket and is now trying to make it into a rich man's prerogative.
The rich have always been able to afford the best....it is the poor who had to make do with bits and pieces to make something out of nothing.
And on the same note are those pin (only glass-head pins, you know)and machine snobs....
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If you are just making something to throw on the floor or take to the beach, then go ahead and use whatever. But if you are putting a lot of time and effort into a quilt, and want it to last past your lifetime, then good fabric is the way to go. There is room in the quilt world for both kinds of quilts.
I guess my pet peeve is me looking at a piece of batik fabric, turning it over and over, trying to decide which is the right side!