Thin material for quilting
 

My sister has given me material that she wants me to use for some of the blades in a dresden plate quilt. The blades will be 5.5" long.

One material is rather thin. How would it work to iron that material to a thin interface to help strengthen the blades? Any other suggestions would also be helpful. Thanks.

i agree on the thin fusible interfacing

yes, they will all feel the same then.

That's what I do with a thin fabric I want to use, or to prevent shadowing behind a muslin or white fabric----thin fusible on the backside before cutting. It drives me crazy how see-through today's white fabrics are, even from the lqs, and at the current prices. We shouldn't have to go to that added expense and trouble if you ask me.

My favorite solid white is bed sheets. Just feel them before buying. They are generally much more opaque, and much less expensive! I just have to make sure they aren't super high thread count as I hand quilt most of my quilts. If I'm going to machine quilt, it's not as big a deal.

Great idea Faintly Artictic!

I try never to buy thin quilting fabric.

There is so much work in a quilt, it is false economy to use "cheap" fabrics that will fall apart after a while. I agree with the interfacing, if you have to use it.

It is important to keep all of the fabrics used in a quilt about the same quality. If fabrics are significantly different in quality they will behave differently (shrinkage) and distort the elements of the quilt. Also, the wear pattern can be a problem. Adding fusible interfacing to some blades in the pattern will add to possible problems. My suggestion would be to add interfacing to all of the blades so they all behave as a unit.

Thanks everyone for the help.

I 'had' to buy thin fabric once to get the shade of tan I wanted. Fusible interfacing made it work well.

I agree with the suggestion to fuse it. I like Misty Fuse as it is less stiff than other fusible webs. I've fused old, thinning fabric to inexpensive muslin successfully. It can sometimes get tricky if the lightweight fabric is not 100% cotton (speaking from experience, Pellon 805 is not designed to fuse anything other than 100% cotton and it was a brutal, long process trying over & over again before I finally got the fabric fused properly), but as long as you are sure it's all cotton, fusing is a wonderful option.