Deflating batting, anyone?

I don't usually use poly either because I have heard that if you iron it it goes flat and I always think that other people will iron things even if you tell them not to! Could you make a little trial piece and try ironing it?

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

Nel,

I have no answer for you but I do want to congratulate you on writing the most humorous tale of batting gone bad that I ever read. I am laughing out loud and my cats are staring at their lunatic Mom. "Popeye's biceps" - oh my!!

Rita

I have recently come across some batting that is a cotton/soy blend. Yes soy as in soy sauce or tofu. It lays fairly flat and I have been using it for place mats which you would not want a high loft which would tip over stem ware. Joanne carries it. You might give it a look, and see if what you think. John

It seemed like a good idea at the time. I put a puffy poly batting beneath my new ironing board cover. In just no time, it is as flat as a flitter. Flatter. So. Therefore. Steam iron pressing ought to help. I believe I'd place it right-side down on a terry towel for the pressing. Polly

Oh, brill! What a great description! You have not lost you way with words...

I suggest steaming the bejazuz out of it and then plonking it under summat heavy... Can you turn your chopping block upside down on it? That would do. A week under that and I should think even the most lilo-ish wall hanging will have given in and deflated. Or some of Chris's old legal tomes? You do have plenty of those...

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 03:55:57 -0600, Sartorresartus wrote (in article ):

Maybe a little more stitching in the puffy areas?

Maureen

Thank you all so much. I've steam-rollered it to within an inch of it's life and it is duly flattened.

I have laid it now beneath the carpet in the sitting room in case it dares to puff up again whilst it dries! It is as stiff as a board and quite un-quilt-like, but that is to the good.

When it is dry I shall add some more stiching and embellishments to the edges and so on. The middle will have to fend for itself. It is one of those pockety things, so there is no chance to go in there and add more quilting to them.

Nevermore!

I shall use bump next time. That seems a great idea. I have plenty left over from doing the lounge curtains (do you remember helping with those, Kate?)

Thanks y'all, I knew someone would have the answer. Now, no more spinach in the mix!

Nel (Gadget Queen)

Except for things that 'go bump in the night', some of us have no idea what 'bump' is. Translation, please. Polly

I used something like a soft pelmet vilene in dark brown for my Christmas Wall hanging (as yet unfinished). A Croft Mill special!

Oh, yes! Three pairs of fully lined and bump interlines silk curtains with a 12' drop, as I recall... And swags - which you mostly did yourself after we'd done one to make sure the pattern worked!

Or poly batting...

A very fluffy cotton (or sometimes poly mix) curtain interlining, draftproofing for the use of. Makes yer slimline silk dupion Yorkshire-proof!

Lizzy

Yes, that's the stuff; it looks and feels like super-thick flannel sheeting. You stitch it, by hand, as an interlining to curtains to give body and insulation. Makes the silk (in this case) drape really well and keep out the drafts. It's a pig of a job, but... many hands make light work, and it is worth doing in the end. I would certainly recommend it and would do it again. Even if I don't think I would use shot-silk as curtaining. It rots in the sun.

Nel

Do you remember me dreaming about us all making dresses out of the stuff? A very up-market Sound of Music moment!