How do you fold your quilts?
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Just move back to Chattanooga, TN.
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I never heard of folding on bias. Sorry but I do not think I could do it if I wanted too... I do re-fold with different crease lines. I store my quilts in the closet with all my other blankets and sheets. I use my quilts but I have Grandma quilts in a glass case.
I wonder if she let's her kids sleep under quilts. I made my kids quilts for spreads and they still have them after 20 years of boys folding, dragging and craming quilts. Still look pretty good.
I wonder if she let's her kids sleep under quilts. I made my kids quilts for spreads and they still have them after 20 years of boys folding, dragging and craming quilts. Still look pretty good.
#16
Too funny. It really didn't matter at the time. Heck she could have refolded more easily at home rather than take the time and space to fold them on the bias there ... at a picnic! At a picnic I would think getting them away from any food or hands with food would be the most important thing.
I agree she is now officially a member of the Quilt Police ... and most of them are rude.
I laughed because she used plastic bags.
However, that said I have been told for years now that folding on the bias does have less strain on the fibers. Since I don't have much room mine are folded in my display case ... on the bias. Oh to have the space for an extra bed to put them all on.
ali
I agree she is now officially a member of the Quilt Police ... and most of them are rude.
I laughed because she used plastic bags.
However, that said I have been told for years now that folding on the bias does have less strain on the fibers. Since I don't have much room mine are folded in my display case ... on the bias. Oh to have the space for an extra bed to put them all on.
ali
#18
I agree NYGal. I have some very old ones that I have laid a cotton sheet on and then folded. I think the real issue is the plastic bag! Also, it's a pain, but unfolding them and laying them out on a bed every few months is a good habit to keep them from creasing.
#20
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Salem, NY
Posts: 203
I read a handy hint.........I roll mine on a noodle that you would use in a swimming pool! Tie it with a piece of leftover fabric so it stays wrapped. Easy to store too, so far it has been no problem. My neighbor is a HUGE quilter, she stores hers on an extra bed upstairs stacked with a white sheet over the top of the stack so they don't fade. Only issue she has is when she has company and needs the bed-then she folds them for that time. Works for her.
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