I don't remember how I found this site but it has a lot of free quilt patterns and advice and ideas. The one that I hadn't heard of was to use your used dryer sheets and press them then use them as the base for your crazy quilt patch. It gives you all the directions. I think the site is great. Here it is if you want to check it out.
Won't people wonder what that stuff is when they take our quilts apart a hundred years from now!!
Betty in WI
They sire will. They probably will think we bought new ones and used them for the fragrance and they just got old after washing our quilts. I thought it was an excellent idea for the used sheets. She in PA
I don't think anyone would want any of my used dryer sheets in their quilt. I use them. LOL
When I take stuff out of the dryer, I collect the dryer sheets (when I can) and put them in a little basket over the dryer. They are great for cleaning off the top of the dryer, especially where lint dust collects around the lint filter. I use them to clean around the tub of the washer and pick up lint from the floor around the dryer. I use them to dust, they are great dust catchers! I use them to pick up dog hair along the base boards. I have a dog with a skin allergy at the moment and he sheds like crazy and it is driving ME crazy. I HATE dog hair in my house - but the dryer sheets pick it up fantastically.
Anyway, I guess my point is.... my used dryer sheets would be too used and full of lint dust or dog hair. No one would want THAT in their quilt! LOL
Tina
Tina, You would defiantly have to put some aside just for quilting unless the dog hair could be instead of batting. Maybe, you came up with a knew idea. You can piece and quilt at the same time. LOL
She in PA
Actually, I did use one for applique. I think it was a heart.....I cut a heart from fabric and one from the fabric softener sheet, sewed them right sides together, slit the FSS and turned it inside out. Perfect heart....if you can keep the FSS from showing along the edges.
Betty in WI
I have often wondered about the long-term effect of dryer sheets in a quilt. A lot of people are concerned about basting spray and the chemicals that it might leave in a quilt, even though the label says that it washes out. I'm wondering if the same thing might be true of dryer sheets and the chemicals in them, because the sheets stay in the quilt. Just wondering...
Julia in MN
When you have cut the shape from the FSS, Betty, try cutting a sliver more off all round, to make it a tiny bit smaller than the fabric one. You can still 'persuade' them together, and it does make the back one disappear better. . In message , Betty in Wi writes
I am with you, Julia, Dryer sheets have been around a relatively short time. There is just no way to know if there is some chemical left behind in the dryer sheets that would someday damage, or, heaven forbid, cause the disintegration of the crazy quilt many years from now. I'm sure our foremothers had no idea that using silks that had been treated with metallic salts would be a bad thing either. Metallic salts are what cause(d) many silks to "shatter" and disintigrate in antique crazy quilts.
The other reason I would not use a dryer sheet is that I prefer the stability of a good muslin. I do a lot of heavy stitching and embellishment on my pieces. I think that good muslin, along with good basting, help blocks to lie flat.
Just my thoughts, certainly don't take it as telling anyone what to do.
That's a good idea. I'll try it.
Betty in WI
They work just great too. I've used them for foundation piecing and sew and turn hand applique for years. Just the right whisper weight.
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