Library Quilt commission

Wow what a big undertaking, good for you!

The only thing I can think of is keep in mind that over the years, the dust and grime will accumulate on the quilt and may need to be taken down and washed. Many years from now when someone decides to toss it in the wash, how will it come out?

~KK in BC~

John

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I'm wondering if that would make it difficult to quilt. Several years ago, I made a small water color quilt using the fusible interfacing type stuff for the top. I had an awful time with free motion quilting. I think it was, at least in part, from the interfacing. I finally took it all apart, washed the top, and spray-basted to cotton batting. That worked pretty good.

In my experience with wall hangings, I have found that if I use something like Warm'n'White batting, I don't have any trouble with it hanging flat. Of course, I've never made anything 8 feet wide, and that may make a difference.

I have an antique bed-size log cabin quilt hanging on one end of my living room; I use a hanger made by . The quilt hangs nice and flat and close to the wall without any other weights or anything. It's a tied quilt with who-knows-what for batting and was definitely not made for hanging.

Julia in MN

John

I have never done anything like this John but the folks that use metallic lame type stuff use interfacing on that and so do the T-shirt folks. They use the interfacing on the fabric though, not the batting.

I MQ'ed a quilt out of Warm and Natural years ago that just came out really stiff. Too much so to use as a lap quilt. I guess it had too much quilting. Lots of folks use W&N so they might have some suggestions about that. Since that experience I don't use it.

How about testing your idea out on a smallish sample just to get a feel and see how it launders?

What a cool project. SOunds fun. Keep us posted > I just finalized the deal for the quilt for the local library and I

John, I think you're just asking for grief. That's a big project and with stiff interfacing it's going to be contrary to heave around to quilt. Since you have very fine woodworking skills and tools that you are not afraid to use, I just believe you could find another way. I've stitched just about everything including a Push-me-Pull-you (can't spell that but we made one). That critter was made of chicken wire and it was 'possible' but not much fun. IMHO. Polly

Sounds like a good idea to me, but wait till the experts weigh in with their opinions.

John: Good luck with your project. Have you considered using foam core with a 'normal' quilt construction? I've done this with great success. The foam core board, purchased in an art supply store, was cut a scant 1/2" less than the quilt, then the pins were inserted through the underside of the binding. I did this with an odd sided quilt (8 corners!!) about 9 years ago. It still looks great! PAT

Will it scrunch under the machine with stiff interfacing? Or maybe you have longarm facilities. In any case, try a sample piece first, including binding and washing. Roberta in D

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I think some might be concerned that I am going to use a "stiff" or "solid" feeling interfacing. What I have here at hand as an example, are a variety of interfacing samples, from my clothing assemby stash, of varying thickness and density from positively flimsy to almost plywood. I am thinking of something in the midrange of that spectrum and it would be surfaced on both sides with a light poly batting making for a filler that is not even as heavy or thick as most cotton or cotton/wool batting rolls. The idea being that when the whole pkg. is quilted, there will be some loft to the quilted surface but some rigidity to the whole thing when hung up suspended away from the flat brick wall. I do have a long arm Janome and I have put quite a few large rolls of fabric through it. It won't be like trying to roll a large piece of cardboard and it won't be any more bulky than the above mentioned cotton batting. I was just curious if anybody else had tried this particular approach. Being a rather new quilter I have not had the experience of trying all of the various methods of sandwiching a quilt for topstitching. That being said, I also am not as "tied to tradition" as to methods, as somebody who might have been taught the "correct" method a long time ago and would be hesitant to change from the tried and true approach. Maybe I am trying to reinvent the wheel and would save a lot of trouble to just go ahead and use the traditional method. I think a test sample of a couple of pieces of solid scrap fabric assembled into the proposed sandwich should answer my questions well enough and I plan on doing that before committing to any final approach. Just wondering if any input was available from anybody who had tried what I am prposing.

John

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In an early post you mentioned ironing, and I see you intend to use a poly batting.

I was told that you shouldn't iron poly as it goes flat. When the quilt is eventiually washed won't the interfacing need quite a lot of ironing?

What about a wool batting - they have a fair amount of loft.

In an early post you mentioned ironing, and I see you intend to use a

Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

Excellent point. I will put that in to the equation, when it comes time to make the decision.

John