Can you use a 100% Broadcloth for quilting? I am making an LSU quilt and want to use the bold colors of purple and gold that come in the broadcloths. Is it too thick and will it be able to be put on a long arm machine?
Thanks for your help..Jenny

It seems to me that when I was a kid, you used broadcloth for quilting.

Would a long arm quilter cringe of they were asked to put it on their machine or turn it down due to the fabric?

it is in the thread count. tighter weave might be more difficult to quilt. However, batiks do fine and many are tighter weave.

I think broadcloth is cotton and polyester blend, or it use to be, I use to make shorts out of it. Try a small piece and see how your regular machine handles it.

When I was in my 20's it was cotton broadcloth. When I took home ec we made an apron out of it, my first attempt at sewing.

Broadcloth in Canada may either be 100% cotton (just fine for quilting) or polycotton (65% polyester 35% cotton) that many of the Mennonites use but my guild members will not. My domestic machine quilts either using my walking foot but the polycotton will get puckers on the back unless you pin or baste really well and check often. I think it is another of those quilter`s choice decisions.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada so maybe that's why I remember it as being all cotton.

I am sure you could use broadcloth in a quilt. However, I bought some broadcloth that you could see through. After that, I purchased royal broadcloth that is suppose to be better quality, but you can see through it too.....very thin.

My Gammill long arm machine does not have a problem with polyester blends. As to whether or not broadcloth is a blend or 100% cotton, you would have to check the label.