Posted 11/15/2008 @ 12:36:56 pm by igoquilting.com

In the beginning, mothers used old shirts, dresses, and left over pieces of fabric to make quilts. To make them warm, old bedsheets, drapes and flour sacks were use as batting. Even feathers have been used as the lining for some quilts. Feathers or down were cleaned and use as batting because of how warm they are. They would use a very coarse fabric to make a large bag and then filled it full of down feathers.

Today there are hundreds of colors, textures and fabrics to choose from. One can use 100% all cotton fabric to polyester fabric to make your special quilt. Fleece is another very popular fabric to use as a throw. Kids love it because it is so soft. Kids like to make the knot quilt. This quilt has the kids combine two pieces of fleece fabric by cutting into the fabric about two inches all the way around and tying the two pieces together making a soft quilt. You can even use your old blue jeans with holes in them to make a very beautiful quilt.

A quilt must be made from a fabric which has a very strong weave to withstand lots of hugs and tugs and when washed many times comes back clean and soft. The fabric must be color fast, warm, and beautiful. 100% cotton fabric works the best. It is easy to quilt and comes in thousands of colors. Cotton allows the needle to move easily through the fabric without puckering.

Kona is a new fabric on the scene today. It is a premium 100% cotton broadcloth with a high thread count which gives the user a very wonderful texture to work with and creates a very beautiful quilt. It comes in lots of bright, bold colors.

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