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Edie 10-07-2011 08:48 AM
Originally Posted by thepolyparrot
Who defines what words mean? And does it really matter? The meanings of words is in constant flux. The word "coverlet" is nearly moribund - at least in the United States. :)

If you quilt a top to a piece of fleece that is both batt and backing and bind the edges, are you going to let someone else decide whether or not it's a quilt?

You know, it wasn't too long ago that the "experts" determined that it wasn't a "real" quilt if it wasn't hand quilted. Pfffftttt.... who cares? ;)
I didn't know that coverlets were dead. My mother quilts coverlets as do I. To us, a coverlet is a quilt that can lay on top of a double bed . It is not used in place of a quilt, au contraire, it just tells you what the size is - approximately 60x82 (give or take! I make a lot of quilted coverlets. I also make a lot of quilted double bed sized quilts.

There is baby quilt, lap quilt, coverlet, double, queen, king. That is in my vocabulary of quilting. Edie

Edie 10-07-2011 08:48 AM
Originally Posted by KerryK
IMHO ... If it looks like a quilt, and warms like a quilt, then it's a quilt!
You got it, Lady!!!!!!! Edie

Rhaorth 10-07-2011 09:12 AM
Originally Posted by Edie
Originally Posted by KerryK
IMHO ... If it looks like a quilt, and warms like a quilt, then it's a quilt!
You got it, Lady!!!!!!! Edie
hey there... your name is same as mine (well not my screen name, my real name)
Edie (Edith)

So from one Edie to another... hi there!

orangeroom 10-07-2011 09:15 AM
Beautiful!

kwiltnutt 10-07-2011 09:33 AM
Love your lanyard! Did you use a pattern? Would like to do one of those! Please???

KathyKat 10-07-2011 11:11 AM
I had to laugh about your comment about the word "coverlet". I use that term all the time because I like to make thin quilts to use as coverlets for my beds for summer use. I think it's a very descriptive word but then maybe I'm a bit old fashioned. But several of my coverlets are very modern in design.
Originally Posted by thepolyparrot
Who defines what words mean? And does it really matter? The meanings of words is in constant flux. The word "coverlet" is nearly moribund - at least in the United States. :)

If you quilt a top to a piece of fleece that is both batt and backing and bind the edges, are you going to let someone else decide whether or not it's a quilt?

You know, it wasn't too long ago that the "experts" determined that it wasn't a "real" quilt if it wasn't hand quilted. Pfffftttt.... who cares? ;)
:lol:

mhansen6 10-07-2011 11:20 AM
I don't care if you call it a coverlet or a quilt, that Cathedral Window is spectacular. It must have taken years to make. I love it.

clsurz 10-07-2011 12:04 PM
Personally I live to annoy the quilt police. Who made them such anyway. If all the deceased quilters could come out of there graves and annoy these so called quilt police I'll bet they would change there tune pretty quick.

sylviasmom 10-07-2011 02:08 PM
Cathredal windows is know as a summer quilt because as stated previously it has no batting. I call them beautiful.

gramquilter2 10-07-2011 02:36 PM
Definitions/words and how they are used change over time.
So are we,quilters, not changing???


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