chalkboard fabric

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- Anne Rogers
  
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15 years ago

Mon, Dec 22, 2008 3:55 AM

I bought some chalkboard fabric this week, slightly spur of the moment, on holiday, had my kids with me etc. I've been thinking a bit more what to do with it and I have two questions.

First is that as the chalkboard section won't be quilted, how to I make sure there isn't a disaster with the batting? Fusible?

Secondly, it's pretty thick, any tips for sewing it? What about it wearing against the adjacent fabrics? The result will be a kind of wall hanging, but the idea is that they will get used!

Cheers Anne

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- Pete and Kay
  
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15 years ago

Mon, Dec 22, 2008 4:26 AM

I have made a couple of placemats. I just put a dark children's fabric about two inches wide. front and back, like a frame. The little girl who goes with her Mom to adult lunch meetings occasionally, enjoys her chalkboard placemat. I don't think a wall hanging blackboard should be quilted, or even backed with batting, just back it with denim or something heavyweight, to give it some body. Kay Fl

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- Anne Rogers
  
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15 years ago

Mon, Dec 22, 2008 7:05 AM

That's interesting, I'm about 99% sure the display ones in the shop (and they had 3 or 4) did have batting. They were mostly of a design which had about a 12inch square of chalkboard fabric and a border of at least

4 inches, one side border was bigger and had a pocket on it that was big enough for a box of chalk.

I wonder if I'm aiming too big, I have half a yard of the stuff and it's

47" wide, so I was going to do 15"*18" approx as I want to do 3.

Cheers Anne

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Mon, Dec 22, 2008 1:51 PM

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- Sandy
  
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15 years ago

Mon, Dec 22, 2008 3:42 PM

Anne, three of my DGSs have now made placemats with that fabric, and there hasn't been any problem with the results. :) We used "regular" batting (Hobbs 80/20, since that's what I have around most of the time). The placemats have been washed repeatedly (one for about three years now, the other two for most of a year) with very good outcomes.

That said, the area of blackboard fabric wasn't that large -- probably about 9" x 11" at most; I wouldn't want to have much more than that in any one unquilted spot.