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Found this definition on dictionary.com:
–noun 1. a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting. 2. anything quilted or resembling a quilt. 3. a bedspread or counterpane, esp. a thick one. 4. Obsolete . a mattress. –verb (used with object) 5. to stitch together (two pieces of cloth and a soft interlining), usually in an ornamental pattern. 6. to sew up between pieces of material. 7. to pad or line with material. –verb (used without object) 8. to make quilts or quilted work. |
I refer you to work done by "Borntohandquilt" here on the board.
How could her wallhangings NOT be called quilts! |
That's what I hate the most.
Originally Posted by kathy
what really chaps me is for someone to call a quilt a blanket!
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All quilts can be wall hangings, but not all wall hangings can be quilts.
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If you call it a quilt, I'll call it a quilt. I'm not going to argue with someone over what they are making.
My first instinct is to say that if it includes a sandwich of top, batting, and backing, it is a quilt. But then what about warm-weather quilts which may have no batting? |
When I make a baby quilt I always put a hanging sleeve on the back. Some parents don't want to get a "special" quilt dirty. So if they want to hang it -- that is their option. I never give a quilt with any "strings" I will admit that I prefer that it not be used for a dog blanket
Mim
Originally Posted by lavona
is it just me but it seems to me that a lot of peaple caarents don't want to get a "special" quilt dirty and hand it on the wall.ll a wallhanging a quilt but to me a quilt is to be used on a bed and take a lot of work while a wallhanging doesn't take as long and some are only 12 inch square and they are also called a quilt or is a quilt any thing that has quilting on it. i don't mean to offend just wondering
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Originally Posted by lavona
is it just me but it seems to me that a lot of peaple call a wallhanging a quilt but to me a quilt is to be used on a bed and take a lot of work while a wallhanging doesn't take as long and some are only 12 inch square and they are also called a quilt or is a quilt any thing that has quilting on it. i don't mean to offend just wondering
I think its wrong to say a quilted wall hanging doesn't count as a quilt because it doesn't take as much time to make. There are many wall hangings out there that do take as much time and, if anything, thought and effort as a quilt you would use as a bed spread, even if they aren't as big as a regular quilt. And what about quilts where the quilter used shortcuts and tips to make the quilting process go faster? Are they not quilts because they were whipped up in a shirt amount of time and didn't go through a huge undertaking to make them? |
Originally Posted by amandasgramma
"quilt" types up a lot faster than "wallhanging".... :) :)
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Originally Posted by franie
That's what I hate the most.
Originally Posted by kathy
what really chaps me is for someone to call a quilt a blanket!
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When I am whiney I ask Pat to bring me my blanky. He always brings me a quilt.
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