question about feather quilts
#51
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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My Dh has an old feather pillow. Looks too flat for me but when I think it needs washing, I throw it in the washer and then throw it in the dryer and it does fine and fluffs right back up in that dryer. If there was any mites or anything, that dryer would surely kill them from the heat. I don't even know where he got it. Probably from his momma's estate.
#52
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Join Date: May 2010
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I inherited an old "feather ticking" made with downy feathers as the lining from my mother-in-law when my DH and I were first married. I have stored it in a cedar chest all these years. It is in dire need of repair and I did not have the heart to throw it out.
I think that if the feathers are the real downy feathers (the softer ones) and dry, they would work in a quilt.
I think that if the feathers are the real downy feathers (the softer ones) and dry, they would work in a quilt.
#53
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Location: AZ and CT
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Originally Posted by happy_quilter
I inherited an old "feather ticking" made with downy feathers as the lining from my mother-in-law when my DH and I were first married. I have stored it in a cedar chest all these years. It is in dire need of repair and I did not have the heart to throw it out.
I think that if the feathers are the real downy feathers (the softer ones) and dry, they would work in a quilt.
I think that if the feathers are the real downy feathers (the softer ones) and dry, they would work in a quilt.
#54
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Connecticut
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Originally Posted by barbbrad
My husband and I own a outfitting business and bring hunters up from the states to hunt geese and ducks, would I be able to use the feathers that we get to make a quilt and how would I do that? :)
#55
Oh, I do remember how I loved my down pillows and covers! Now, however due to illness I've had to switch to the alternatives which are nice, but just not the same soft lofty fluffy thing!
Roxanne
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#57
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Manitoba
Posts: 383
To make a real down feather quilt, you need to strip the fluffy part of the feather from the spine. It takes lots of work. Then you need to get feather proof fabric which is very tightly woven so that the feathers won't come through the fabric. It takes quite a while to gather enough for a quilt, but once you do it's like sleeping under a cloud and so warm and toasty, there's nothing like it. To make you quilt you can either sew channels and put the down in each one or make sort of like double channels so that there are no cold spots on your quilt. I used to sit in our small half bathroom to fill the quilts. That helps to eliminate feathers flying all over the house.
#60
Originally Posted by barbbrad
My husband and I own a outfitting business and bring hunters up from the states to hunt geese and ducks, would I be able to use the feathers that we get to make a quilt and how would I do that? :)
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