I've gone Completely Batty!: Hobbs line is complete!

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Hobbs line is complete!

I have finished all the battings in the Hobbs line. Now its time to clean the sewing studio as it looks like the thread fairies paid me a visit!!!!

3 comments:

Kim D. said...: Hi Debra, Crispy sent me over. I will enjoy reading about your batting tests. I just read about the bamboo batting and wanted to send you the article by email but I don't see one. Do you want to add an email to your profile. I think it's too large to add in comments.; November 14, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Crispy said...: Details...We Need Details ROFL!!

I posted about your project on my blog, I see a few have decided to follow your adventure.

Crispy; November 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM
sewbeit said...: Kim I added my e-mail I would love to see this article; November 16, 2009 at 6:32 AM

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If you have always wanted to know more about the different kinds of battings available and how those differences will ultimately affect your finished quilt you have come to the right place…
Welcome! Come on in and sit a spell, visit with me as I attempt to discover all that there is to know on the subject. Please write me with your questions and join up to follow this blog. We are bound to learn along the way. A good place to begin is with the terminology, there you will find batting terms you may be familiar with and some you may not that will help you understand the nature of batting. It’s pretty important stuff after all it’s the “meat” in the middle of these elaborate quilt sandwiches we make.

How I prepared the batting samples

Each batting was cut into two 12” squares for the quilting samples; they were layered and quilted by machine in ¾” grid between two squares of bleached muslin. One sample square from each brand of batting then received a single line of hand quilting to test for ease of hand needling. These quilted squares were then rotary cut to 9 ½” squares and bound. (Note: There are a few brands of samples that are cut to 8 1/2” because the what I received from the manufacturer were pre-cut 10”squares) One of these bound samples was then hand washed in hot water (as hot as my water heater would allow, which turned out to be 127.4 ˚F) with powdered detergent and dried in a hot electric dryer. Each brand tested will include an unquilted sample of each batting so you can examine each brand for hand, neps, scrim, bonding seed waste debris, loft and color. Every sample of batting, and quilted samples, washed and unwashed, were then labeled as such.
All muslin used in the samples is 100% cotton and was pre-washed in hot water and dried in the dryer and ironed smooth using a steam generator iron. The thread used for machine quilting is mercerized 100% cotton. The thread used for hand quilting is glazed 100% cotton.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Hobbs line is complete!

3 comments: