Sweatshirt quilt help.
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Sweatshirt quilt help.
Any suggestions on sandwiching my lap size sweatshirt quilt? Will batting be too heavy? or just back it with a cotton fabric? Have never done one before using sweatshirts,have made T-shirt one.Any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated....
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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I have a pattern for making sweatshirts out of quilted fabric. The best sandwich stuff would be prewashed flannel and backed with muslin. Batting would be too much, unless it was as thin as flannel. Sweatshirt fleece does have some give and being a knit, it does breathe.
Even the wrong interfacing on sweatshirt knit can make it too stiff.
Even the wrong interfacing on sweatshirt knit can make it too stiff.
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Ellenboro, NC
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I have just fininshed 2 tee shirt quilts and the lady requested no batting and no quilting and to use sweatshirt fabric for the backing. I was a little skeptical at first but they both came out really nice. I thought that with no quilting they would be really "floppy" but the layers stay together pretty good. I did go around the edge with a 1/2" seam and that seems to help. She really liked them.
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I have just fininshed 2 tee shirt quilts and the lady requested no batting and no quilting and to use sweatshirt fabric for the backing. I was a little skeptical at first but they both came out really nice. I thought that with no quilting they would be really "floppy" but the layers stay together pretty good. I did go around the edge with a 1/2" seam and that seems to help. She really liked them.
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