paintedquilt

Great jobs :thumbup: :thumbup:

mrspete

Gorgeous !

butterflywing

actually, i don't usually tie but they ended up so thick i couldn't get the needle through, nor could i squeeze the thickness under the presser foot.

i still have enough blue triangles to make a diagonal flying geese at least queen size. i must have started work on it one hundred times. someday. i do have some strips done. LOL! :roll: they've been sitting there since 1990.

bluebird

Your double knit quilts are beautiful, especially the flying geese. In the 70's a friend worked in a garment factory where they made all sorts of fancy dbl knit outfits. She would bring home the scrap bags and I made my 1st quilt from them. Did brick sized pieces in all colors, like your flying geese, and put prairie points around the edge for the border. Tied it, quilting is nearly impossible with all that stretch :-D Also sewed strips of the dbl knit and then crocheted rugs in all sorts of colors. They, like the quilt, wear like iron. Another rug was just pieces/strips ea one sewn across the middle onto a backing....another piece sewn close to it (push side of 1st one up and sew the next one down the middle) and so on. Makes a cute fluffy bathroom or bedroom rug. Yes, the ball point needle is your best choice for knits. :D

butterflywing

there are two jokes in our house.

1. if we burn all the double knit quilts in the driveway, the toxic fumes will kill all the neighbors.

2. at the end of the known world, there will be nothing left to show there was ever a civilization except porcelain toilet bowls and polyester double knits.

that eco-unfriendly wear-forever stuff never wears out. it's cold in the winter, hot in the summer and catches on everything leaving little pulls. and the quilts weigh a ton. want your kids to stay tucked in? trap them in double knit quilts.
:lol: :lol:

BUT if you stain it you can bleach it. absolutely colorfast.