Hi there

I read here a lot of times about muslin. google says that it is loosely wooven cotton. Is that correct and what for do you use it? Isnt it too thin for patchwork?

Does anyone know where I could get a fatquarter pack with landscape prints like sky, clouds, sea, land and streets. I just found single prints in yardage but a pack would be great and I like very high quality fabric.

One more thing. Do you know an onlineshop with fabric for clothing, specially for boys clothes in cotton.

Thanks for reading and would be great if you could help me.

Granny

string quilt blocks can be done with muslin as a base.
i used to find good muslin but now it's extremely thin, so i wouldn't use it for piecing like i have in the past.

Just on the muslin granny 59 - in the US what is called muslin is known by UK suppliers as quilters' calico. But allso known as muslin in France and Switzerland. I use lots of it - for backings, and linings. Best place for price is
http://www.cottonpatch.co.uk
theirs is good quality, several widths, in natural and white.
The "muslin" they sell is the loose woven stuff - great for machining strips onto, I've used it for hanging sleeves too.

I found different 'grades' of muslin, from very loosely woven to very tightly woven. I use alot of muslin, I love the way it looks in a scrap quilt, the scrappier the better in my book! It's great as a stablizer, or a foundation for a crazy , string, log cabin, you could use it on a reverse applique....summer jammies..... fantastic as a 'strainer' for yogurt instead of paper towels...

I would go to Keepsake Quilting for sky, trees, stones etc. for landscape fabric. It is www.KeepsakeQuilting.com

If you have an Ikea near you, check this out http://www.ikea.com/ch/fr/catalog/products/51725112 It's fairly loose weave and feels a bit stiff when new but it washes up lovely and soft. I've used it for backings too - great as it's 150 cm wide - cheap too! By the way, be sure to prewash it as it does shrink a bit.

thank you all so much. So I think I understand the muslin business: most of the time used for stabilizing. If you use it for backing, doesnt it wear off fast or doesnt the batting come trough?

Next I will check out the link for the landscape fabric :D
Would it be possible to use quiltfabric for kidsclothes or does it wrinkle too much?

Great Board by the way
Granny

Since we have nothing but WalMart here, I am using fabric from LQS for my grandkids Easter duds.

The stuff from Ikea is what Americans call 'muslin' (I think) but what we Europeans call 'calico'. It's a fairly loose weave unbleached cotton, it's not like you'd use to strain jam, if you know what I mean! I've used it and washed it in a couple of quilts and it holds up fine! :-D No batting poking through! It's not that thin. :-D

I use muslin for backing all of my quilts except baby ones. I also use it when I want to hand embroider squares, such as redwork. I get it at my lqs for $3.99 a yard and it is very good quality.

Muslin comes in many different grades. The less expensive muslins are thinner and work well for foundations. You would purchase the better quality muslin for backings and tops. Better quality means higher thread-count per inch, threads made out of longer-staple cotton, better processing methods used on the thread and fabric, etc. I have purchased top-quality muslin at one quilt shop. It's easy to tell its quality from both the look and the feel of it. Dark-colored threads won't show through it, for example. However, it costs a lot per yard -- the same as other quilt shop fabrics. If you compare this to the muslin purchased for $3/4 dollars per yard at my local JoAnn Fabrics, there is no comparison.

So where do you buy your muslin?

I have found at my local JoAnn's muslin from very thin (good for foundation piecing) to very heavy (more than what I would want in a quilt) the price varies according to the weight of the muslin. They have it in the traditional cream as well as in white. :D:D:D

I have made clothes out of quilters cotton, and remembered why I loved permanent press so well :wink: yes, it does wrinkle easily :D:D:D

thanks amma.......just as I figured. So where do you buy your cotton for sewing clothes?

JoAnn's has Moda muslin which I bought but it reminds me of broadcloth. Our calico here is usually a floral or something allover.