Blankets for batting?
#42
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Nashville Tn
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On the indian quilt I mentioned, I remembered that you use a big square and you cut out pieces to make a head, a top and a skirt. You use black yarn to make braids for hair.You can also add some indian designs on the side if you have space.
#44
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Northeast Colorado
Posts: 422
My son suggested using light weight fleece for batting...I am going to try it. So much easier for me than cotton batting and no piecing - usually kings are the same price as twin if purchased at right time of year...white or lt. camel should work well.
#45
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I use light weight blankets for the back of the quilt. So they are very nice to use during Winter months. My children and grandchildren enjoy them. I never tought I could use it for batting. Good idea.
#50
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: SW Iowa
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Back before we had fleece by the bolt, a friend of mine would buy inexpensive blankets and use them instead of batting. My grandmother back in the 30's and 40's would encase a wornout quilt and tie it to extend the use. She has been gone since 1972 (at age 90). Her husband was a farmer and they never had much money, so she used everything. The only quilts I ever saw her work on were scrappy quilts. I was born in 1937 so I really don't know what she did in her younger days. But she quilted a lot and started me piecing at about age 13 or 14 on a 9 Patch.
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