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#12
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Originally Posted by DeniseP
I don't like the bulk of batting in my placemats. I like to use a piece of flannel intead. It gives the placemat enough body without adding bulk. But that's just me......
#13
Originally Posted by Carol's Quilts
Originally Posted by DeniseP
I don't like the bulk of batting in my placemats. I like to use a piece of flannel intead. It gives the placemat enough body without adding bulk. But that's just me......
This is how my mother viewed washing fabric before using it:
"Clothing manufacturers don't wash fabric before they make clothes, nobody would buy it." I'm down with that.
#14
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Originally Posted by DeniseP
Originally Posted by Carol's Quilts
Originally Posted by DeniseP
I don't like the bulk of batting in my placemats. I like to use a piece of flannel intead. It gives the placemat enough body without adding bulk. But that's just me......
This is how my mother viewed washing fabric before using it:
"Clothing manufacturers don't wash fabric before they make clothes, nobody would buy it." I'm down with that.
It's probably true that clothing manufacturers don't wash fabrics first. Have you ever washed a T-shirt that was all twisted and wonky after it was washed and dried? You can't fold it straight, it doesn't hang straight when it's worn, the neckline is out of kilter, etc.
Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I always prewash.
#15
Originally Posted by DeniseP
I don't like the bulk of batting in my placemats. I like to use a piece of flannel intead. It gives the placemat enough body without adding bulk. But that's just me......
#16
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 64
Willow, here's something that happened to me. I made lovely placemats. When I washed them they puffed so nice (that kind of puffy would have been lovely for a whole quilt). However they became puffy in all the wrong places and a glass wouldn't stand level on them. Had to put glasses and coffee cups up above the placemat on a solid surface. Something old or tried and true in the batting part would have been better (as has been suggested).
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