Bed Sheets as Backing Question
#31
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Vancouver, WA
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I am getting ready to use a sheet as backing for a quilt. It is cotton/poly but has been washed Lord knows how many times in industrial machines. No pills and it has the perfect 'hand' and color. (I am recycling all the linens DMIL had in her assisted living apartment. She lived there 7 years and had single and full sheets - they all have been washed to a fair-the-well so I see them as perfect candidates for yardage.)
#33
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Join Date: May 2011
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We use sheets all the time for our charity quilts at church -- and I use them at home. We generally haunt yard sales and thrift stores for the barely used sheets, but when we buy them we get them from Walmart or Target. The lower thread count sheets are closer to the density of the quilting cottons we use. Always wash the sheets before using them since there may be shrinkage. Incidentally, we have found that the Walmart sheets can be a bit smaller than expected -- and we have found that the stated size of some sheets is actually the pre-hemmed size.
#37
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ive used sheets w/o a problem.. sometimes i really just want it for the pattern !! lol..
if its a sheet set, cut off the elastic and you can use it for another backing and the pillow cases can be undone/cut and a new cuff can be added to match the quilt to be used to 'gift' it in and after they receive- they get a wonderful matching pillowcase !!!.. Sounds like a win win to me..
if its a sheet set, cut off the elastic and you can use it for another backing and the pillow cases can be undone/cut and a new cuff can be added to match the quilt to be used to 'gift' it in and after they receive- they get a wonderful matching pillowcase !!!.. Sounds like a win win to me..
#40
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Florida - formerly Montana
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The idea of flannel sheet for backing sounds absolutely wonderful. Do you think it would make a huge difference since I dont prewash my top material.. ( i like the wrinkly shrinkage look). will the back just kinda shrink up with the top after I wash it.. even though it wouldnt actually "shrink" - being a sheet?
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