Have any of you made a baby quilt (cotton only) that pressed the seams OPEN?
How did it wear? Did the batting 'seep' thru?
Niece is working on her first baby quilt and has her first one 1/ 2 finished....seams pressed open. She is at the point of 'should I re-do it or continue on.
Told her I'd ask here.
Yuppers, we have another one hooked: )
Butterfly (yes, Baby will be getting one of the I Spys....
and Sunny.... Baby IS a GIRL...and is still waiting for HER first quilt)
At least one baby quilt per week; seams pressed open. Wears just fine. No problem. The stitch length on the Bernina is set just a little shorter than default. The only quilter I've seen with seeping is the one who thinks 'cheap' is a proud victory and she uses some awful @#$! crap for batting. Polly
Hmmm, I pretty much love cheap, but not when it comes to batting. I learned that lesson the first couple quilts I made some years ago. I used the only batting I knew about, which was that stuff that comes rolled in a plastic bag at Wal-Mart. Ick. Took me some time to learn the word 'bearding' for what happened. That and making a mess of my needles and dulling my scissors. And lumped. And just plain ugly even when stitched between two layers of fabric.
As for seams pressed open, I do that all the time to cut down on bulk. I think with finer grained fabric the seams look better when pressed open.
Glad to hear the niece has come over to the side of good and light. ;)
Sunny
No expert here (FAR from it!), but my patchwork teacher says that when machine piecing it's not a prblem to press seams open but that she doesn't recommend it for hand-piecing.
Claudia
(who can't wait for class to resume on OCtober 5th!)
TANQP! Tell her to continue (unless she can see big gaps if she pulls a bit on the seam). Most batts these days are pretty well bonded. And if she wants to use a more natural batt, she can always add a thin layer of batiste to tame it and not worry about a thing.
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Thanks for the replies. She is continuing on. Bought all the materials from the local LQS so they should hold up.
Ha! I did the very same thing. The first quilt I made I used some awful batting from Hobby Lobby that was probably even worse than what Wal Mart sells. About the third washing, the batting was....gone. It just disappeared. It's like a quilt with no batting now. I have no idea where it went or how it got out. I'm glad to hear so many people buck the quilt police and press open when it suits them. You rebels you.
Sherry
My WalMart is still selling fabric by the yardage off the bolt. But the fabric dept. employees claim to be phasing out the fabric department. Who knows what they are doing???
Leslie & The Furbabies in remote, rural MO.
Maybe someone can explain this to me because I am sooooooo confused.
Ok, so Wal-mart has gone across the country and taken out all of their fabric departments, then slowly Jelly Rolls were making their way back in and now they are selling "Quilter's Fabric" by the yard. It is coming in one yard packages. Then you can also purchase fabric to make yourself a pair of jammie pants or a pair of shorts etc, - just the right amount of fabric is there.
So what's the point of taking out the department if you're still going to sell fabric????? What am I missing?
Paying people to *cut* the fabric....
-Irene
My WalMart in SC is selling pre-packaged fabric with instruction or a pattern to make pj's or other project. They also have a few of the patterns that are usually on top of the pattern files in the local fabric stores. I just got back from Florida and the WalMart in my town there has not changed their fabric dept at all. At least not yet.
If it's precut and pre-packaged, there's no need for someone who has experience doing that. Just pick a package of pre-cut fabric off the hook and take it to the cashier. I have no idea if our WalMart has taken out the fabric or not - I try not to go there. ;-) For non- food items, I go to K-Mart.
N.
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