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Posted by Janner on June 28, 2009, 11:42 am
Always fancied making a velvet cape, have been collecting different
colours for years...let us know how you get on. Would like to have an
on point pieced centre at the back and the rest black....
Janner
France
Polly Esther wrote:
> Mine too, Mary. It was very, very heavy - and hot. Wasn't any way that
> anybody was going to sleep beneath it. It was lovely but just 'for show'.
> Only took about ten years to finally get the fuzzies from cutting and
> stitching out of the cat's whiskers, the ac filters and Everywhere else.
> Now. Yes. Doc. Why do you ask? ... not that we are much in the way of
> encouragement. Polly
>
>
> "Tia Mary" <wrote> Dr. Zachary Smith wrote:
>>> Has anyone any experience (and wisdom/advice) with making a quilt
>>> entirely out of velvet? I'm not talking about a crazy quilt (as I was
>>> asking about a couple weeks ago) but the entire quilt using nothing
>>> but non-stretch synthetic velvets (not crushed - not velveteen - just
>>> the real nice/good stuff). Thanks.
>>>
>>> Doc
>> I did one but the blocks were not pieced. It is done entirely in 10"
>> whole cloth squares and is more as "comforter" then a quilt. I used high
>> loft poly batting, did stitch in the ditch along the seam lines and
>> brought the backing around the edges to the front as the binding. It's
>> heavy -- very very heavy -- so it's a good thing I didn't use cotton or
>> wool batting! Why for doth thee ask??? CiaoMeow >^;;^<
>
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