Cotton/Poly Gingham - What do you do with it?
06-26-2012, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by rrhaigh
Cute for bed skirts - I just hem it on all sides and then tuck it between the mattresses. Leave it longer than you need so you have enough fabric to tuck in. You can gather it by just pushing more fabric together or leave it boxed. You can change it easily if you change quilts on the bed. I use this in my guest bedroom because I like to change the quilts often and hate the bed skirts that require you to lift the whole mattress to remove. I use this method for my bedroom also.
06-26-2012, 09:10 PM
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You can use it for anything you like, and most people will think it's just wonderful. I guess the quilt police won't raise any objections if you don't enter it in a show. For me the main problem with the blend would be that I tend to iron all my quilt fabrics with the iron set on "cotton", and usually if I hit some old thing from the stash that isn't all cotton I will find out immediately because it melts at that temperature. It will pull up smaller the second the iron hits it, and I can't be bothered with that, so will either donate it or use it for non-quilt purposes. I have always loved checks and wish I knew of a source of all cotton gingham in a rainbow of colors.
06-27-2012, 06:01 AM
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What a great idea to make bed skirts...out of any fabric. I have always had ones that fit over the box spring but when I I want to change them I have to get family to lift the mattress off the queen size bed. Going to make me a nice white one now to tuck between them. Why didn't I think of that? They have some with elastic sides but I really think this would hold much better on my wonderful...but heavy to lift mattress. It is a pillow top mattress.
Originally Posted by rrhaigh
Cute for bed skirts - I just hem it on all sides and then tuck it between the mattresses. Leave it longer than you need so you have enough fabric to tuck in. You can gather it by just pushing more fabric together or leave it boxed. You can change it easily if you change quilts on the bed. I use this in my guest bedroom because I like to change the quilts often and hate the bed skirts that require you to lift the whole mattress to remove. I use this method for my bedroom also.
07-05-2012, 03:41 PM
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I have used the 2 sizes of checks in the same color to make the little doll with a bonnet (pattern from coltilde) I have given them to local hospitles. I have not seen any quilts used with fabric but I think flowers made with them would be nice.
07-05-2012, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Tartan
Someone posted a picture of a chicken scratch quilt, it was great. I think a quilt made of different chicken scratch designs would be pretty. Chicken scratch is where you use embroidery floss to stitch on the gingham squares to form patterns like hearts, stars etc.
07-05-2012, 04:28 PM
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I had a wonderful dress out of poly/cotton gingham (made it when I was in high school) and Grandmother cross stitched around the hem and the sleeves. I also have some great aprons she made -- all bright and cheery. My other grandmother made me several kids dresses when I was little -- and later she put the scraps into a quilt with scraps from other clothes she made me -- it held up great and teh mixture of fabrics is not an issue. If I mixed cotton and non-cotton I would shrink the cotton.
07-06-2012, 05:28 AM
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http://sew4home.com/tips-resources/s...ake-wave-tucks....................
I've seen some of these tucks before, but not the angle tuck. Neat!
I've seen some of these tucks before, but not the angle tuck. Neat!
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