To be honest with you, I have never washed my fabric for my blocks, only the sashing, border backing and binding. Never have had a problem. I've been quilting for ten years now!

Edie

I have made three of the quilts now and I didn't wash any of the fabric before I sewed them together. They washed up really nice when they were finished. I like the way they "pucker" after they are washed and dried. I will try to post pictures tomorrow, no time tonight. I have to fix dinner.

I had totally forgotten about putting the baby quilt I made into the dryer. So many coals in the fire. I also like it when it comes out of the dryer and is all nice and soft and puckery. I love that look in a quilt.

Now I will finish the book that goes with it and that is that! Just when I start bonding with a quilt, it is done! :( But then it will go to a new baby in December and all will be well with the world and I will already be working on something else. Isn't quilting a hoot?????? :-)

Edie

Thanks for letting me know that I can order another kit so I always have one here in the wings :wink: :D :D

Can someone give me the web site to order kits for the baby quilts. I would love to get in on making them. Thanks

Good Morning: This is how I got it - google downy-help a kid. Then click on Helping Kids, then how to help, then make a quilt, then get quilt info, then kits available on request and you are there. If I click on downy.com, it doesn't go through - so I just get there via the back door and it works fine.

This is such a wonderful thing and I am so glad so many of us have joined this happy bandwagon! Talk about an inundation of childrens quilts.

Change the subject here a little bit - I found the neatest journal, hard cover and before I get too old to remember to do this, I am going to make a list of each and every quilt that I have ever made, when I started, when I finished, what it was, who it was for and then I can look back and see how this whole love of quilting started and blame it all on my mother! All of it! I remember one Christmas, Mom was in her 80's and all of us were at her home for Christmas Eve. She came out of her bedroom with a huge pile of packages. Each one had a name on it. There were eight of them. She had made eight quilts - full size - each one different - for her three daughters and five grandchildren. The grandchildren (already married) were awestruck and the daughters cried. We had a gift that she had spent years in the planning, that being to hand all of them out at one time. I got the Sampler, which is probably why I love Sampler Quilts so much and do my designing, not so much by the color and pattern, but by event in our life or the special meaning of a special color in the quilt. Mom is 93 now and she is still quilting, but not as much. She has been the reason I love to quilt. I wish I had learned how to do this years ago. That's my little story and the start of my journal. Edie

http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/27514.page Here is the link to the thread with it on page one.

Here's the web address:
www,downey.com/en-US/helping-kids.jspx

You can also look at Up North's message of 10-23-09 for a direct link.

Sue

OOPS!!!

That previous web address should be:

www.downy.com/en-US/helping-kids.jspx
Sorry!

Sue

I ordered and received six pkgs... there is a group of us who will do one fo theirs and do one from our own stashes too.... They were here within a few days!! Mine is done except quilting. HOWEVER - there is not binding fabric. Was it mis-packaged or do they want us to just bring the back around and sew it like that?