White or cream material for background quilting
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White or cream material for background quilting
This has been going on for a while with me. When I check out the solid materials at fabric shops, they feel so thin. Don't like to use thin material for "backgrounds"on the front of quilts. What kind of white and cream solids do you experienced quilters use. Where do you get it?
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I get any white on white or off white on off white from Wal Mart or anywhere, I just feel it.I haven't run across any thin yet. I don't pay high prices for most of my fabrics. Quality is what I want.
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I've found that when I buy thin fabric, such as at a local fabric but not quilting store where they sometimes offer it at $1 a yard--too good to pass up--if I wash it, and it shrinks down, it is now of good weight. For backgrounds, I love to use white-on-white or white-on-cream. I find that using a solid sucks the life out and makes things too flat for my taste.
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I've found that when I buy thin fabric, such as at a local fabric but not quilting store where they sometimes offer it at $1 a yard--too good to pass up--if I wash it, and it shrinks down, it is now of good weight. For backgrounds, I love to use white-on-white or white-on-cream. I find that using a solid sucks the life out and makes things too flat for my taste.
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