My future daughter in law wants me to make a quilt in the colors of the wedding for her to use as the registry at the wedding. So everyone would be signing the quilt as they came to the wedding. Making the quilt is not the problem. I know that there are a lot of people who sign a piece of fabric and it is embroidered over, but this would be a completed quilt. My question is will the fabric pens bleed through.
Den 29-12-2012 19:44, Beth Jones skrev:
I don't have huge experience with siggy quilts, although I did do one for a wedding for a close friend a few years back.
Probably (as in I can't imagine!) the pens would not bleed through to the back of the quilt.
However (and this is two biggies in my book) (1) it is a million times harder to write on the fabric on top of the batting and all than just on the fabric (sitting flat, I had mine taped to index cards). And (2) Som people will screw up what they write - since they are doin it on the finished quilt, there is no option to try again.
I had everyone sign (draw, write messages, even a thumb print from an infant, etc) on the blank fabric pieces and made up the quilt afterwards. Also allowed for fabric + pen to be mailed to a few treasured people who could not be there on the day.
Hanne in DK
It is not a good idea to write on the finished quilt for the reasons Hanne said!!!! Barbara in FL
And those are precisely the problems that immediately occurred to me!
And me. Polly
"Beth Jones" wrote in message news:e7a1f$50df39f1$cf3aab60$ snipped-for-privacy@news.flashnewsgroups.com...
I agree with what everyone else has said. A compromise that might work better would be to make up the top only and have people sign that. Pieces of sandpaper placed behind the sig squares will help keep the fabric from slipping. You could have extra squares handy for any mistakes. It would be much easier to replace a piece on a top than try to fix a completed quilt.
Jeri
The pens won't bleed through, with the batting and all. But it's still a dodgy idea, for the reasons Hanne mentioned. Also, some fabric pens need heat setting, which is harder to do properly on a finished piece.
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Further to Roberta's message, I don't think anyone has mentioned the thought of getting people to sign on a nice piece of paper (decorated in some way?) or several sheets if need be, then copying these sheets onto fabric sheets - either in your printer or one of the shop ones - and appliquéing that/those to the back. . In message , Roberta writes
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