{"id":1517,"date":"2012-04-15T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T18:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2012-04-15T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T18:13:38","slug":"batting-studies-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Batting Studies 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Dec 5th last year<\/a> I blogged on a study of a number of different batts available where I was living in Denver at the time, a very new quilter, it was interesrting to me to see how they all worked up given the same fabrics, needle,\u00a0thread and hands\u00a0working up the same quilting pattern on each sandwich.<\/p>\n

A few days ago I unexpectedly came across them in a suitcase of old stuff while looking for something entirely different.<\/p>\n

Each potholder-looking thing is a different brand of batting, various compositions, and all quilted to the same quilting pattern.\u00a0 On the back of each I wrote various comments about the result, how it handled, and any technical problem eg several bearded fairly markedly.\u00a0 A useful reference at the time, but\u00a0battings have come and gone, and I no longer live in\u00a0the USA, \u00a0anyway.<\/p>\n

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Even if I say so myself, the quilting is of a pretty good standard – which makes the wrinkled one lying on the top very puzzling – on the back of that one I can just make out ‘too much tension’, so what on earth does that all mean?\u00a0 I can’t remember,\u00a0 but I was not a total stranger to the technique of quilting several layers of fabric together by a running stitch known as a quilting stitch, and I did all the others just fine.\u00a0 So, I really don’t think I would have left the piece like that – they were all bound\u00a0after <\/em>quilting, and then the grommets put in.\u00a0 If the tension seemed too tight at the time, as would seem\u00a0so from my having made a note on the back, why on earth didn’t I undo it?\u00a0 The batting\u00a0in that one\u00a0is wool – so did the samples get wet some time and that one shrink?\u00a0 Not to my knowledge – wherever it has been we’ve never been flooded out, and, anyway, they’re all clipped toegether, and no cotton batts shrank ….\u00a0its all very puzzling.\u00a0 Any suggestions welcome!<\/p>\n

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