I've gone Completely Batty!: 10/3/10

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Ready to begin!

I have the new samples of Pellon's Legacy line ready to go. Can't wait to hand needle test a few of these samples,the wool and flax/cotton blend look like interesting candidates for future projects.

There is quite a stack to get through here and I haven't prepared the muslin/freezer paper to feed through the printer to make the labels yet either so it will be a while before these samples are machine quilted, hand needle tested ,bound, washed and labeled. But stay tuned for the results,I plan to try and get through these in addition to mass producing Thread Caddies for the November show and making Christmas gifts, good grief I better get to it, time is a wasting!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Finally!!!!

The Pellon legacy samples are finally here!! I'll be working on them for the next few weeks. Can't wait to see how it performs

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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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Ready to begin!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Finally!!!!