Tying a quilt
#12
As grey q said width of hand don't need to measure....I used perl 8 cotton A mate used wool looked very scruffy after use another quilt mate used crochet cotton looked good. I've been told embroidery cotton slips undone after wear I used a reef knot a surgeons knot is better. ON. U tube
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If you are going to stitch-in-the-ditch, you may not need to tie the quilt at all, depending on the sizes of the pieces. That type of quilting makes the quilt hold up longer than simple tying, but tied quilts are usually the warmest. As always, there are pros and cons to everything.
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If you think about it, each quilting stitch is like a tie holding the layers tightly together. Ties are spaced far apart, leaving more area of the quilt with loft.
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Tied quilts are very warm because the batting is not compressed as much as it gets compressed with quilting. Trapped air in the fluff of batting holds warmth. The more heavily quilted a quilt is, the longer it will stand up to use, but the less warm it will keep you.
#17
Another consideration is loft. Higher loft means more air held within the batting which means less heat escapes. Quilting lines compress more of the batting than tying does, which means that there is more loft in the quilt and therefore more insulation against heat loss.
If you think about it, each quilting stitch is like a tie holding the layers tightly together. Ties are spaced far apart, leaving more area of the quilt with loft.
If you think about it, each quilting stitch is like a tie holding the layers tightly together. Ties are spaced far apart, leaving more area of the quilt with loft.
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