Totally Shocking new Quilt book !!
10-21-2013, 01:14 AM
#72
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I also prefer to tye a quilt over machine quilting. Sort of depends on the blocks which one I do to finsh my quilts. I have tied many larger baby quilt (closer to a lap size) so the child can grow into it some are now over 15 plus years and have been washed, dragged and misused but still have held up actually far better then the ones machine quilted. I have always used a square knot which have not untied.
This pdf might help those who are wanting to tye using either a square or surgeon knot: http://www.covidien.com/imageServer....pplication/pdf
Also I am interested in the name of the book!
This pdf might help those who are wanting to tye using either a square or surgeon knot: http://www.covidien.com/imageServer....pplication/pdf
Also I am interested in the name of the book!
10-21-2013, 01:35 PM
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10-21-2013, 01:39 PM
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If you want the best and warmest batting you can buy and I believe the cheeps it is from Oakley Quilt Company (I don't think I spelled that right) If you want the link PM me. When we first started using it my mom threw a large piece (over yard square) in washing machine with blue jeans just to see how it held up. Not a bit of distortion. I have quilts over 50 years old that have been washed and washed. I tie all my quilts. When my son had a baby my mom made a quilt with hand embroidery on it (all very pretty) She sent it to a LA to be quilted. He called and thanked her and then said "could you make her a real quilt tho" LOL
My dad made a very simple frame Just 4 pieces o 2 X2's I stretch my quilts across that tight so they come up very "puffy" and comfortable. Maybe cost $10.00 at the most. My hands are getting crippled and I could NEVER hand quilt.
My dad made a very simple frame Just 4 pieces o 2 X2's I stretch my quilts across that tight so they come up very "puffy" and comfortable. Maybe cost $10.00 at the most. My hands are getting crippled and I could NEVER hand quilt.
~Skeetersmom
10-22-2013, 06:23 PM
#79
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Another reason to tie them is, a lot of them used a wool batting. When the cover was worn they would remove it, fluff the wool up and put a new cover on it. Tieing kept the wool fluffed and it was easy to take the ties out. The wedding quilt we received in 1961 was a wool batting tied. It has been recovered at least twice since then.
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