quilt as you go Cotton Theory method?
09-27-2011, 10:20 AM
#11
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: New York City/Manhattan
Posts: 1,316
Tried it once and REALLY wanted to like this method. Ended up throwing out everything I'd cut for the project. I swore never again. Though I know some who do like the method. Just wasn't me.
09-27-2011, 11:51 AM
#12
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 1,877
I made a quilt and it was so stiff that it could stand by itself. Lots of thread, fabric, etc. The only reason I finished it was because I loved the fabric and paid full price for it. After it was finished I could barely recognize the fabric. I washed it over and over with fabric softener to soften it up. No luck.
09-27-2011, 12:31 PM
#14
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: western Pa.
Posts: 2,221
I bought a pattern years ago, saw Betty do the demo, everyone was going crazy buying patterns and the special batting and fabric panels. It looked like fun,but, I can't figure it out. Don't think I will ever do it now.
05-13-2013, 02:51 PM
#15
Member
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 8
cotton theory of quilting as you go
Hi Peggy. I am studying various "quilt as you go" methods. I never personally tried the cotton method, but I belong to a sewing group where several of the women used it and do not like it.
I read a little about it, and the women in my sewing group said you end up with lots of thicknesses where you join the blocks together.
I am not going to use this method. I am going to other methods.
Hope this helps!
--Susan
I read a little about it, and the women in my sewing group said you end up with lots of thicknesses where you join the blocks together.
I am not going to use this method. I am going to other methods.
Hope this helps!
--Susan
05-13-2013, 02:57 PM
#16
Power Poster
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 12,861
I've made a few cotton theory quilts over the years- the quilts are beautiful quilts- when that is the kind of quilt I want to make I do. the technique is a good technique to know how to do- I like to try new techniques/methods to make quilts- some I use over & over- some I learn once- then never do it again- the cotton theory technique I've used numerous times since the first class I took for it 8 years ago.
05-13-2013, 04:31 PM
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Alturas, CA
Posts: 9,393
I haven't made any quilts with the "Cotton" theory but I have made a few quilt as you go, initially they are a little easier but as you attach rows to rows, it's not easy, and unfortunately most of my quilts are oversized kings.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
copycat
Main
9
04-13-2016 11:51 AM
