summer quilts
#11
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Ohio
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I have made 2 "summer" quilts- 1 with no batting and the other with flannel. No batting- had no body and tends to wrinkle more. no need to quilt much since all you want is to hold layers together. Flannel- it is as heavy as one with batting and also the flannel cost more that batting would. Moral- put batting in quilts and kick it off if too hot.
#12
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Saskatchewan
Posts: 838
This would only matter to me if I was entering it in a quilt show. Living in Canada, I'm reminded of a quote by our first Prime Minister Trudeau: "The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation". I'm pretty sure that was when the quilt police were banned from Canadian homes; I make my quilts however I want, with no fear of repercussions.
#16
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Manteno, IL
Posts: 1,621
Nice thread as I just finished what I call a summer quilt...top=string quilt....backing=musling....sandwiched w/flannel. I am currently using it with a scrap quilt (that is sandwiched w/W&N) but I think w/the flannel it will still be too warm to use it during the summer as I'd hoped. So my next quilt I want to try, (as I have on hand) a flannel backed quilt with the top in reg.cotton material and nothing in between. I just hope the flannel still won't be too warm but we have the AC running and I think a flanned backed quilt might work out just fine. Good luck with however you decide to go but do let us know!!!!
#19
I live on the surface of the sun--otherwise known as Phoenix. I have made a couple of quilts without batting. I quilted them on my midarm just like any other one. I like them very much most of the year.
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