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Originally Posted by dunster
(Post 5046906)
You do get more ragging with 3 layers of flannel, and you have the opportunity to add another color in the ragging if you want. It is a soft quilt as well. But I've never made one with batting, only with 2 or 3 layers of flannel, so I can't compare the two, except to say that it seems to me that using batting is a lot more work than just the 3 layers of flannel, since you have to do some quilting on top to keep the batting in place, and you have to layer the batting "just so" in order to keep it just at the edges of the stitching. (If you use the 3 layers of flannel you don't have to quilt it with the traditional "x" since there's nothing to shift around inside the quilt.)
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Originally Posted by Peckish
(Post 5045690)
I have a rag quilt on my bucket list. I've already made one with batting, and I know I can substitute flannel for the batting. Here's my question: has anyone used more than one layer of flannel for the batting?
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Wouldn't all that flannel be more expensive then buying high loft batting/ I may have the name wrong but I have seen a couple of long arm quilters comment on how they made the quilting fluffy...Hope to help
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auntpiggy - thanks for the pic of your Michigan quilt - it looks great!
april - thanks for the info about clipping, that helps. dunster - I hadn't thought about not having to quilt the X, that's a good point! Rachel - the fluffy look I want isn't in the quilting, but the raggy edges. And I'm not too worried about the cost of the flannel, I picked up some flannel king sheets from Target that were clearance, I think I paid $4 for the whole set. Can't beat that with a stick. Thanks to everyone for chiming in! I'll post a pic when I get it done. :) |
I use batting in the center because of the cost for flannel... BUT.... when i sew the two squares together, i slip in a strip or two of 1.25" flannel pcs..... I have done one extra, but prefer 2 or 3 different colors, both from themselves and from top and bottom squares... this makes it look like there are lots of layers and after the 'ravel' wash and trimming, you have lots more personality to your edges without all the cost.... one of my faves was a navy poly silk jacket with the navy on both top and bottom but each set of squares had either daisy yellow, grass green or candy pink inserted in the seam.... the little touches of color really made the jacket... it was one of those simple 'graph paper' kind of pattern where every pc was made of squares... i think i took it from a crocheted, afghan version of a jacket and just counted squares.... it's been a long time...
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Originally Posted by Peckish
(Post 5048575)
auntpiggy - thanks for the pic of your Michigan quilt - it looks great!
april - thanks for the info about clipping, that helps. dunster - I hadn't thought about not having to quilt the X, that's a good point! Rachel - the fluffy look I want isn't in the quilting, but the raggy edges. And I'm not too worried about the cost of the flannel, I picked up some flannel king sheets from Target that were clearance, I think I paid $4 for the whole set. Can't beat that with a stick. Thanks to everyone for chiming in! I'll post a pic when I get it done. :) |
Originally Posted by deemail
(Post 5048583)
I use batting in the center because of the cost for flannel... BUT.... when i sew the two squares together, i slip in a strip or two of 1.25" flannel pcs
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