tropit

More ideas:
- Dog beds
- Outdoor furniture cushions and pillows (might mildew though)
- Quilt Bags
- Do some fabric paintinig on the drop cloths
- Window shades
- Easy, pre-hemmed drapes
- Quilt totes

~ C

tesspug

I covered two panels of sound board with a drop cloth as a design board.

Debbie C

10 years ago my daughter moved to an apartment upstate NY to attend grad school. There wasn't much extra $$$ for furniture. A neighbor gave us a sofa and two chairs that I slipcovered in drop cloth fabric for under $20. It lasted a long time then it was passed on to another pair of grad students for their apartment. As far as I know, the set is still holding up!

lots2do

I just read a tutorial online for a picnic quilt backed with a drop cloth or duck cloth. Is it the same thing?

caspharm

I used a canvas drop cloth to make covers for steel targets for DH.

toverly

My niece used them for drapery in her first apartment. The only problem she had with them was occasionally the seam ran horizontal instead of vertical on the panel. It was a great neutral fabric.

tropit

I'm guessing so. The dropcloths that we are referring to are made of a medium weight canvas.

I can see, now that I'm googling "dropcloth decor," it appears that this trend has been around for awhile. I had no idea...I'm so behind the times up here on this mountain. Never the less, there's lots of great, money saving ideas for using drop cloths. I'm definitely going to try using one for a quilt back, as well as the other projects mentioned above.

~ C

sJens

I have never had a problem with wrinkles when the dropcloth is washed. Have made cage covers for our parrots out of them and they are washed quite often. Maybe it would depend on the type of dropcloth you purchase -- mine are quite heavy.

Prism99

There is a difference between duck cloth and canvas, although the terms are often used interchangeably:
http://www.mothering.com/forum/66-ar...ck-fabric.html

I have duck cloth purchased as yardage from Walmart on my ironing board. To me, it is not canvas. My midarm machine came with canvas leaders, and that definitely is a much tighter weave than the duck. Duck fabric wrinkles terribly on first wash (and shrinks). I don't know what happens to canvas on first wash.

It appears to me that painting drop cloths could be made of either weave. Not sure that there is any way to know which ones you are getting if ordering online. My thinking is that the drop cloths sold in paint stores such as Sherwin Williams will likely be canvas and more expensive, as professional painters use them without washing and paint does not seep through the pores. What is purchased online may often simply be wide duck cloth, which would allow paint to seep through if not pre-washed and shrunk to close up the weave.

tranum

I sewed 5' tents for grandkids with drop cloths and saved a lot of money.