earthwalker

You can keep linens and quilts in a cedar chest if you use a fabric liner/acid free paper or roll your quilt in a sheet. If you leave fabric on a wooden surface without a barrier between the wood and the item, the acids and oils within the wood can seep into the fabric.

mzsooz

Oh WOW! I need to go dig into mine and check it out. I did not know this! Probably ruined all kinds of things!

lab fairy

Don't feel like the only one. I have several things in mine that I'm going to be working on. I'm making a lot of muslin bags to start storing my cleaned quilts in a different location. The bags are mostly to help with the dust once I figure out how to help them.

clem55

That is new info for me! But, my sister had several quilts made by her MIL that were filled with cotton batting that had little brown flecks in it, and she found little tiny stains from those flecks after a few years. We couldn't figure ut out until I opened an edge of binding and found flecks right under a stain.

dsb38327

Labfairy, that baby quilt is marvelous. You were taught well. Your stitching is so precise, so nice.

Holice

wholecloth is both a quilt as well as a term for overall quilting on one piece of fabric. Traditionally we thought of it as a bed size quilt but now consider it a technique or type of quilting in which the quilting motif is the design. They are available as preprinted with wash out ink in wallhanging and queen size as well as 16" and 18" size - also in wash out ink. The small ones are excellent for practicing the quilting stitch and doesn't take a long time to complete. There are a few designs in crib size.
Wallhanging and queen are in white and natural. The 16 and 18" in white and natural as well as a number of colors.

CarrieAnne

Wow, labfairy, that is a beautiful quilt! So sad about the stains though, hopefully something will get them out!

Pam

Those flecks in the batting may have been impurities, like the seed hulls, it gets removed now so hopefully that is not a problem that we will have to continue to deal with.

Gerbie

Lab Fairy, What a beautiful quilt, you did a fantastic job of quilting. I would never attempt to do hand quilting, I hate to do hand work. I love that pattern, and be sure to keep it going since it has been in the family for so long. Great peice of work. Gerbie

quiltilicious

This is what I'm using my old pillowcases for these days. I didn't know about keeping quilts in cloth bags until I was starting to enter quilts in quilt shows, and they requested the quilt to be placed inside a cloth bag when submitting them