Rumpled quilt skins stuffed animals

I read the subject line as if you had a complaint about the effect of a quilt on a (beloved) stuffed animal!

Sorry, can't help with your question, but the elephant looks really cute.

Hanne in DK

I haven't done the pattern Lizzy; but have had a thought about the seams. You will be pushing the stuffing quite hard, to get into all the 'corners'> So, I wondered if it might be a good idea to reinforce the seams by sticking strips of bondaweb along the edges of all the pattern pieces, so that when you sew the seams you will be sewing through flannel fabric which has been reinforced with the bondaweb. Flannel is soft and might not tolerate the stuffing as well as closely woven cotton? . In message , Lizzy Taylor writes

Adorable patterns, but OMG that Hoffman hand-dye fabric! I had not seen that before. I have been saying for some time that I'm going to concentrate ALL my purchasing on solids or read-as-solids. This gives me a definite place to do that. I'm making a list now of Kona solids I 'must have' and any purchases I make this year will go toward that and obviously some of the Hoffman hand-dyes that I can't live without.

As for flannel, I would worry about the seams and all the stress you have to put when turning it right side out. What about Minke? Or that sort of fabric. I know it's hard to sew with, but really rewarding in the end and would last a lot longer than flannel.

Sunny

I'm going to ignore your question. Yep. Just going to sit right here and pretend I didn't see those precious patterns. I do not need another project started until I get a few finished. So there. However, since you asked. Flannel is probably not the best choice. The seams would want to pull apart in assembling and stuffing the elephant. If you leave him loosely stuffed, you'd wind up with a Rumpled Baggy Trunked elephant. Not a pretty sight. Polly

have just been looking at some sites about needlefelting and it occured to me that what might work for this project is to make the animals out of curtain or furniture cotton (its stronger than regular quilting cotton)remnants/scraps, then add needlefelted bits here and there. very enjoyable tactileness (not sure if that is a real word but hope you know what i mean) to the animal....inside ears, tail, paws, nose, whatever works on any particular animal. makes that animal even a better huggee when the need arises in the recipient of said animal. just my twenty centavos, j.

"Lizzy Taylor" wrote ... I've bought the elephant pattern

was wondering if anybody had made any RQS animals using flannelrather than ordinary cotton fabric? DD has requested one in yellow.

Lizzy

I've not made one using flannel, no, but don't see why it wouldn't work. I bought the snake and turtle patterns, along with some really great batiks to make fairly realistic snakes and turtles for Christmas presents, then ran out of time. However, I'm sure that Mark will like a snake for his May birthday just as much as he would have for Christmas. (Don't worry, he received other presents instead).

-- Jo in Scotland

I just had a thought, why not wash the flannel 2/3 times and then back it a mid or light weight non woven interfacing? I think that would toughen it up, give it a longer life...

Bonnie, in Middletown, VA