Qbird

Is your Aunt's name Kathy G.? lives in Illinois and uses silk ribbon a lot. a true artist. I am using silks and satins on my Jenny Haskin Quilt and it is quilting fine, (but do have it stabilized with fusible batting)

hobo2000

A longarmer can quilt anything you can put on the frame. Well, not husbands. Doesn't always look the greatest. I did a 2 sided poly fleece quilt for a lady. She loved it, it wasn't bad the design showed up beautifully. She has it on her bed and it looks great. Faux silk you would use a fine needle and wool or silk batting and a comparable material on the back. Due to fraying, I would keep the design faurly simple and larger blocks and lots of no-fray.

2ursula

Many years ago, I bought a batch of cotton fabrics in a bankruptcy. Naturally, there were some stray fabrics, which are not cotton, among them some faux silk. I have three workable pieces (about 4 yards altogether.

Since I am not good enough a seamstress and not interested in working with the material, I would be happy to give it to you.

You can then let us all know whether it worked for you.

BTW, it does not fray.

Qbird

If you can not find anyone else that would use the faux silk I would be glad to pay the shipping and think I can use it to embroider on, in a quilt. the biggest problem would be if it would launder, but could try prewashing it before using it.

2ursula

Sure thing.
While I wait for tailbo to respond, I will put it in the wash (I have had it for a few years). We'll see what happens. I think I laundered all the materials after I first got them. So that should not be a problem.

Qbird

Gosh I didn't mean for you to have to wash it, I thought that's what should be done before anyone puts it in a quilt, unless they are going to dry clean the quilt, I would suspect though that faux silk is polyester based, but surprized you say it does not fry, they usually do so need backing or stay stitching as that kind of fabric tends to go wonky sometime.

maine ladybug

I've never used faux silk, but I have made and quilted a real silk quilt ( 2 actually ). I did have to use a very light weight fusable interfacing on some of the silk though. It does fray easily without it. Hope this helps.

Deborah12687

I am making a silk quilt for my Granddaughter and the fraying is really a pain! If the silk is off grain it frays really bad so I decided to use heavy starch and it worked pretty good to keep it from fraying much. I then zig zag or surge around each block and then sew it together. I just have to hand rinse the starch out with a light soap and air dry the fabric do not ring the fabric. I also found out that make sure your iron is on a low setting as the heat will distort the silk fabric.

stewyscrewy

I quilted wiht it and here is pics to prove it I made the gold faux silk and made it into a whole cloth quilting design on it. Stuart http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-54373-1.htm

maine ladybug

I spoke with a company when I was at the Houston International show a couple of years ago about the silk interfacing. That's when I bought this very light weight interfacing and it irons on easily and holds the fabric well without changing the hand of the fabric. No fraying with it. Great stuff for silk.