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Combining Fabric Weights?

DSS wants a comforter for Christmas. Actually, he wanted one for his birthday last summer. I couldn't bring myself to buy him one; instead I began a terrific Drunkard's Path quilt for him--a surprise--which won't be done for, um, a few months...quite a few. But I have two weeks off at Christmas and I couldn't resist poking around my stash and books to see what, if anything, I could (in my dreams?) quickly patch together.

I have a generous amount of a large navy print, on cotton about as heavy as very light denim. It's soft and drapes beautifully. I'm considering using it as the big block in a 10" Double Irish chain, so regular weight cotton would be the chain. It'll be a little scrappy (this could be an opportunity to finally use up some of those oranges!)

Question: will the different weights get along well enough so's to last a while (this thing will go to laundromats and be well used)?

Also, while I'm at it, does Double Irish Chain work with big prints? I've always seen it in solids or near solids. Never made one before but always wanted to.

Thanks muchly.

Dogmom

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I did an Irish Chain for the SMDGD's 5th b-day quilt and it was very scrappy. I used some 100% cotton heavy "scrubs" fabric with kitty angels sitting on clouds as the large block. The pieced blocks are made of all sorts of different reds and cat prints. The pieced blocks were of what I call "regular" quilt weight cotton. The quilt is only 7 months old but has been washed numerous times by now since the SMDGD likes to USE her blankies -- LOL! DD says it is holding up nicely even tho' the fabrics are of very different weights. It really was an easy quilt to make, too. Some of the cat fabrics were a fairly large print and I made sure to "fussy cut" them so that I got a kitty face near the center of the piece. I wouldn't worry a lot about the large print fabric. First, it will just make the quilt look even scrappier (alway6s good in my bood -- LOL) and second, I'm sure that the recipient won't mind a bit :-)))> CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Tia Mary

For reasons totally obscure to me, your question just now appeared. Your plan sounds okay so long as none of your 'regular' weight fabrics are not seriously light weight. I just finished a quilt that had to have some rather thin fabrics in it. The concern for me too was survival of brutal laundry. I backed the fragile ones with a soft fusible to give them a better chance. If your navy is soft and drapey, you should be just fine. If not, what the heck? If he uses it to pieces, you can always make him another one. Polly (SpellCheck did not approve of drapey)

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