When is it hoo humid to quilt???
08-08-2011, 07:19 AM
#31
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Yep. We usually don't have the humidity you folks do, but we have the summer heat. It makes it really hard to quilt when it's hot. One more month and we should start cooling off and then I can get some sewing done :-D
08-08-2011, 09:25 AM
#34
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Originally Posted by dellareya
I have never lived where there was humidity and after reading your responses I never want to. We are incredibly spoiled with great weather. Rarely to hot and rarely to cold and no snow.
08-08-2011, 09:38 AM
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At our first house I had my quilting machine and frames in the basement. The basement leaked. It leaked so badly that a small river ran under my machine. I had to quilt anyway because I was doing it professionally. You can't ask for higher humidity than pure H2O.
08-08-2011, 12:57 PM
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Florida is too hot and humid to do anything in the summer unless you have A/C. Mine is working great so I am able to quilt and sew whenever I want. I feel for you guys up north. I know in Michigan it would get hotter than Florida all the time, but never last long. I'd rather be back in Virginia and in my huge sewing basement there. It was heaven on earth!
08-08-2011, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by SueSew
It has been so humid and hot, and I have had the windows open (no ac in the quilt room)
I can't lay out and sandwich my son's quilt. It's 56x72 and all batiks, and it is actually mushy, limp and wilted, and so is the batting. Starch and sizing long gone. To make it worse, it is now raining. I just gave up!! I closed the windows and put a space heater on high, and left. Maybe it will dry out by tomorrow. It's like a bad hair day, but for quilts.
Have you ever had the weather wreck your quilting plans?
:cry: :cry: :cry:
I can't lay out and sandwich my son's quilt. It's 56x72 and all batiks, and it is actually mushy, limp and wilted, and so is the batting. Starch and sizing long gone. To make it worse, it is now raining. I just gave up!! I closed the windows and put a space heater on high, and left. Maybe it will dry out by tomorrow. It's like a bad hair day, but for quilts.
Have you ever had the weather wreck your quilting plans?
:cry: :cry: :cry:
Do you have a dryer? or can get to one? Put the top and backing in it until they feel dry. They won't wrinkle in a few minutes....
I would get a fan, and turn it so it is blowing on you! ( Not on the quilt pieces) If you are really hot and miserable have it blow across a bowl of ice.
I lived up in that climate, and advise you hot steamy weather up there will not last much longer!
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