Welcome to the Group and your Quilt is great. You should see some of my first, lol...still learning here as well. Keep up the good work.

Nice quilt. Good job.

Hello from Greenwood, Arkansas, USA...love your first quilt, good job on it!! I only use Warm & Natural batting and when I wash my quilts I use my front loader on delicate cycle and then then go in the dryer...I too love that "crinkly" look and it's partly from how dense the quilting that bind them all together is. Welcome to this quilt board, there are other boards out there, google quilt chat!

with red, white and blue, when you wash it, make sure to use color catchers to prevent bleeding

That's nice work! I know it can be tough sometimes to line up rows, but that looks great!

Nice! It doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful!

Here's a way to make your quilts look soft, cuddly and 'crinkly'. Wash you fabrics and hang to dry. Do not use softener and if you have to iron it, no starch or sizener. Use unwashed baby diaper flannel as the batting. When you wash the quilt after it's done being quilted, the heavier the quilting the better, was the quilt. The flannel will shrink and make the top looked really old and crinkled up. Good luck.

Hi! I am a real new quilter ... my only project so far has been rag quilt totes! I saw it mentioned that you only use cotton batting ... can I ask why? Before I start a big quilt I want to learn a bit to avoid some problems.

Sweet Reet-whatever batting you use, depends on what you want. Do you want a "fluffy" quilt, then you would use a high loft poly batting, if you like the "crinkly" look, you would use a cotton batting.

I would ask a friend who may have a "tumbler"(?), and I'm assuming you mean a dryer. Then toss it in there on a warmer than usual setting. That may make it crinkle a bit. Also the more quilting you do may give a more crinkled look.