Is it my imagination?
#21
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I can tell a big difference from different fabric manufacturers. I will look at Northcott fabric first when looking for fabric for a quilt. I have a short list of brands of fabric I will buy.
Northcott solids: http://northcott.net/?sid=2&layout=2...26&colorid=704
Northcott solids: http://northcott.net/?sid=2&layout=2...26&colorid=704
#22
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Montana
Posts: 580
If it was an estate sale the fabrics could be older. I remember when I was in high school I sewed all my own clothes and the fabric was so mush more quality then. I can actually feel feel the difference. I still had a lot left over but gave them away. Now I am sorry. I have also found that the colors feel different. They must dyd different.
Lynda
Lynda
I got a lot of fat quarters at an estate sale, and they are higher quality than anything I have ever bought myself. I am loving making sampler quilt tops with them. My question is about solids -- I buy the Moda or Kona, but they seem a looser weave than the prints. Is this true? I can't think of any reason, so it must be me...
#23
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 433
I have been a huge fan of Kona for years but am finding the new pieces I purchase aren't as nice as the ones I have lingering in my stash. I purchased some of the Moda Bella and solids and fell in love with them. When (or if) I use the Kona I will be replacing with Moda Bella and solids.
#24
There is cotton broadcloth and there is cotton/poly blend broadcloth. Kona Cotton Solids and Moda Bella Solids are both 100% cotton broadcloths with a thread count of 60. Quilt shop quality cotton prints are in the 68 to 75 thread count range. That's why the solids feel looser to you. Prewashing tightens the weave if that's what you want.
Broadcloth does not refer to the fiber content, it refers to the manufacturing method.
Broadcloth does not refer to the fiber content, it refers to the manufacturing method.
#25
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Live Oak, Texas
Posts: 6,133
I was going through fabric that I have had for thirty years or more last week and I started noticing how much better it was than the fabrics I have bought in the last couple of years. It was fabric that was made in the USA. Some is from my DM's stash and I know it was bought very cheap but it had a better hand than some I have payed ten dollars a yard for.
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