My Microwaveable Corn Bag Caught Fire!!
05-15-2012, 06:39 AM
#41
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Lansing, MI
Posts: 1,038
I've used my potato bag for at least 2 years now without any problems. I used 100% cotton along with Warm and Natural. I'm wondering if the LQS might have used Warm & White which is part polyester.
I know it's scary to have a cute project turns bad.
I know it's scary to have a cute project turns bad.
05-15-2012, 07:16 AM
#42
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Western Arizona
Posts: 1,930
Now I'm confused. I thought Warm & Natural was all cotton. I just made sev. microwave bowls using it & have taught sev. other people how to make them using W&N, too.
I am worried now though so I just ck'd the thread I used & it's Coats & Clark which I've used for yrs. but now I see it's polyester covered polyester.
I now use the threads from Connecting Threads.
I am worried now though so I just ck'd the thread I used & it's Coats & Clark which I've used for yrs. but now I see it's polyester covered polyester.
I now use the threads from Connecting Threads.
05-15-2012, 08:40 AM
#43
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Northern California
Posts: 1,929
WHOE.....That sounded scarely. Glad nothing worse happened. What did was bad enough, and surely could have been worse.
Certainly gives us out here something to think on, when considering doing that.
Glad you are all okay.
Vickey S.
Certainly gives us out here something to think on, when considering doing that.
Glad you are all okay.
Vickey S.
05-15-2012, 09:26 AM
#44
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Southern York Co., Pa.
Posts: 439
Oh my that is frightening. I was considering making those for my grandsons' teachers for end of school gifts but now I think I will find something else. That could have been a real tragedy! Also thanks ptquilts for the laugh, I can imagine someone standing naked in front of the microwave cooking corn!
05-15-2012, 10:17 AM
#46
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: DC metro area
Posts: 1,286
05-15-2012, 04:51 PM
#49
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Posts: 433
cooking corn on the cob
I started by making the potato bag, but as I was finishing, I realized I was supposed to use 100% cotton thread and I hadn't. So, I called the LQS where I bought it and they suggested I try microwaving it to see if it would give me any problems. I did that and there were no problems. I then made the corn bag, with 100% cotton thread and handed it to DH so he could do the trial run while I relaxed a bit. We shouldn't have had to do a trial running with cotton thread, but I felt better about it. Suddenly, he started yelling from the kitchen and there was smoke everywhere. The bag had ignited in the microwave after 45 seconds, in two spots. DH yanked it from the microwave and threw it on the back deck where it ignited a third time.
I called the LQS this morning and they assured me that this never happens (even though the woman I had spoken to the previous day said that they had had complaints...hmmm). Either way, I'm taking the remaining fabric and batting pieces and the charred remains of the bag back to the LQS on Wednesday when both of the owners and the woman who puts kits together will be there. They think that perhaps the woman had mistakenly cut the batting strip from a bolt of Warm & Natural instead of the Potato Batting bolt.
Now, if the potato bag had burst into flames, I would have blamed myself for forgetting to use cotton thread, but I made the corn bag with all cotton components and it still erupted. My Gram and I have made rice bags for years with AP thread and have never had a problem like this, so I'm supposing that it has to be a batting problem. I'll know more on Wednesday when I go to the LQS, but I'm still a bit wary about trying to make another.
I called the LQS this morning and they assured me that this never happens (even though the woman I had spoken to the previous day said that they had had complaints...hmmm). Either way, I'm taking the remaining fabric and batting pieces and the charred remains of the bag back to the LQS on Wednesday when both of the owners and the woman who puts kits together will be there. They think that perhaps the woman had mistakenly cut the batting strip from a bolt of Warm & Natural instead of the Potato Batting bolt.
Now, if the potato bag had burst into flames, I would have blamed myself for forgetting to use cotton thread, but I made the corn bag with all cotton components and it still erupted. My Gram and I have made rice bags for years with AP thread and have never had a problem like this, so I'm supposing that it has to be a batting problem. I'll know more on Wednesday when I go to the LQS, but I'm still a bit wary about trying to make another.
05-15-2012, 05:03 PM
#50
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Sparks, NV
Posts: 1,243
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
gjc2001
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
21
12-03-2014 03:33 AM
Ps 150
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
7
09-26-2013 09:11 AM
