doh can not edit my post... I did not mean to say it is almost a bolt (at 12 feet LOL) not sure what I was thinking when I said that. Probably still had those bolts on the brain.

I do it all the time, after all that is how the quilts were made in the good old days.


Billy

One of the reasons I love quilting is that re-purposed fabric makes some of the most amazing and one-off quilts. I collect vintage fabric, anything that can be cut up and incorporated into a quilt or an embellishment for a quilt. No thrift store is safe from my "rummaging":).

Love the stuff you got...specially the pillow panels with the buildings, could be a brilliant quilt, as a centrepiece if you only have the one or incorporating more, surrounded by geometric blocks using plain fabrics that co-ordinate with the colours in the panel....see...salvaged bits and pieces just get the creative juices running:)....have fun and happy quilting.

I have seen a description of how to test a fabric scrap by burning it. Something about different smells, etc. Post a query in a new thread and someone will answer it!

I hope you get the job, too. But...will you ever bring home a check? lol
Michelle

Here's a post about using decorator fabric sample books: http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-158818-1.htm

I think it's pretty neat to do quilting like our ancestors did. They used what they had. Of course, I like the color coordinated ones, too, but like the history of how women used what they had.

My real passion I guess is finding great fabrics in weird places. And I love my seam ripper, too, so I enjoy buying curtains or skirts or bed ruffles or tablecloths, or whatever and ripping them down to make something else out of . I'd guess probably half my fabric is reclaimed.

Recently bought a valance that when I had finished ripping apart was 45" wide and 4 yards long--------------pastel seersucker plaid, just perfect for a baby quilt back I'll be making in the next couple months.

this much I can tell you-----------cotton burns, synthetic melts.

lol good question