How do you do that?
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Memphis, TN
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How do you do that?
Someone mentioned removing the wires from an electric blanket and using in a quilt as a batting. How do you removed the wires without cutting the blanket into tiny strips?
#2
On one I had many years ago, I cut the plug off the blanket & then started pulling the wires . You will have to gather the blanket to get the wires out, but it works. A friend had told me that is what she use's for her quilt's. Now something to look for at garage sale. LOL. Let us know how you do.
#4
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Mount Vernon, Oh
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I like using blankets instead of batting. 1. you don't have to quilt at any particular distance, the blanket will not care. it drapes wonderfully for me, I love the softness, it doesn't get stiff, or migrate. If I want a summer quilt, I use a sheet blanket,(a thin one) and it isn't too heavy. I cannot afford to go get battting for every quilt I make, so it works out for me to use blankets.
#5
I like using blankets instead of batting. 1. you don't have to quilt at any particular distance, the blanket will not care. it drapes wonderfully for me, I love the softness, it doesn't get stiff, or migrate. If I want a summer quilt, I use a sheet blanket,(a thin one) and it isn't too heavy. I cannot afford to go get battting for every quilt I make, so it works out for me to use blankets.
#6
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I use batting that I buy on sale or with big discounts but I only buy larger cuts. I cut it down for my project and use all the bits for my smaller projects.
#8
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Iowa
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Electric blankets usually have a bias tape type covering over the wires and I took all of that off to get the wires out---lots of time and effort to do it. Was sorry I had used the thing in a quilt because it weighed a ton (queen sized quilt). My daughter liked it tho--she likes a heavy cover on her bed. Won't ever do it again tho.
#9
One of the things I like about this board. Everyone has an opinion, and can express it. You can use the infomation provided in feedback to make a decision as to whether or not you would do a certain technique. Can you imagine if no one shared ideas, and no one listened to others opinions? This is just a great place to hang out! Haven't really thought of the blanket issue, but I will now.
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Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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I can understand this. I, too, live on an extremely limited income; if it were not for my extensive stash from having owned the shop years ago, I likely wouldn't be quilting today. But getting batting the way it was described would certainly end my piecing habit! I'm grateful that I had batting, am occasionally given batting, can beg batting remnants, and also have used what was leftover from the Barracks Quilt Project here of a year ago.
I DO get using what one has.
Jan in VA
I DO get using what one has.
Jan in VA
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