Radiance
03-28-2014, 07:32 AM
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Radiance
Has anyone worked with the Robert Kaufman cotton/silk radiance.I've begun a yellow brick road with pastels, so far so good, just want to know if there are any tricks in working with this fabric, it's pricey but has a beautiful silky sheen, I'm going to use silk batting. Hope it goes as well as I envision.
03-28-2014, 08:06 AM
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I love Robert Kaufman fabrics but I have not seen this fabric called radiance.
03-28-2014, 12:56 PM
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I would not use silk in my quilts.
03-28-2014, 02:24 PM
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I haven't used it but it looks lovely.
03-28-2014, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Jingle
I would not use silk in my quilts.
I came across a bag of lovely silk scraps at a thrift shop and thought they'd look lovely in a crazy quilt, but I passed because I have so many scraps already and I wasn't sure they'd survive being washed in the machine.
Does silk not hold up well in quilts? Or do you just not like the feel? Or is it something else entirely?
03-29-2014, 09:25 AM
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I used Radiance in some wholecloth table toppers. It is lovely.
03-29-2014, 10:07 AM
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A friend of mine did a quilt using all silks. She backed the pieces with a lightweight fusible. It turned out beautiful!
03-29-2014, 11:22 AM
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silk is an amazing fabric. it is very weak when wet, however and washing it will change it significantly. for dupioni silks, washing changes the hand of the fabric and can alter the colours in really unpredictable ways.
i will make a silk quilt in my future out of the dresses and pieces i am collecting. and i know when i do this the quilt i have coming off the machine will bear little to no resemblance to itself once washed.
but it is warm, durable and in some way, thanks to those caterpillars, almost magical to me.
if kaufmann is weaving cotton and silk together, i would wash the cut fabric first, treating it as you expect your finished project to be treated. then i would merrily go ahead and do the do
aileen
i will make a silk quilt in my future out of the dresses and pieces i am collecting. and i know when i do this the quilt i have coming off the machine will bear little to no resemblance to itself once washed.
but it is warm, durable and in some way, thanks to those caterpillars, almost magical to me.
if kaufmann is weaving cotton and silk together, i would wash the cut fabric first, treating it as you expect your finished project to be treated. then i would merrily go ahead and do the do
aileen
03-29-2014, 01:33 PM
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Radiance is an amazing fabric. It looks beautiful when quilted.
03-30-2014, 04:11 AM
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A lot of Victorian quilts were made of silk. Look to them to see the result. This silk radiance may be an entirely different circumstance as there have been a lot of improvements made in fabric and knowledge of how to preserve and care for it.
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