I love rag quilts! Don't you?
I love them because they are cuddly and warm in the winter.
So, when the Studio Rags to Riches set went on sale I grabbed it. It arrived this morning and I tore into the box and immediately marked my dies.
Next I pulled out my bags of batting bits. You know when you you trim a quilt and you have strips of batting left-over that are just too big to throw out? I have been throwing all of mine into a bag and storing them away. Well, when my set came I decided to deal with the batting left-overs first to get it out of the way.
I used my dies to cut down the batting scraps into something usable - yey! There are 3 rag batting dies; the small square, the rectangle and the large square to correspond to the rag dies. I know have a bin of batting shapes ready to go for my next rag quilt! Yey! I love having bins of usable things instead of bags of yuck :-D
Now I know some of you will say - I don't like batting in my rag quilts because it makes them heavy. I do like batting for a few reasons.
- it stabilizes the blocks and gives them great body.
- I get to use up my batting scraps that would otherwise be thrown out.
- it stabilizes the stitches so they don't pop
- this is what it looks like outside my quilting studio window right now
Yep. Snowy and cold! You can never have a quilt that is too warm for me :-D Bring on the batting I say!
Do you like rag quilts too? Do you put batting in them?
5 comments:
Great idea with the dies!! I have made rag quilts...and I do use batt in them. I like it too!!
I have only made one rag quilt and I used batting.. It is warm as a hug on a cold morning.
I have lots of flannel in my stash for rag quilts, but have only made one so far and I did put batting in it. I've heard of people using flannel in-place of batting, but haven't tried it yet.
I have made a rag quilt and plan to make another. I think at least a thin batting inside is better than none. At a guild meeting someone shared about rag quilts and said it is best to also sew double seams. An older quilt was passed around to show what happened after several washings- the seams had popped. So, I sewed my rag quilt "twice" for safety.
Cannot wait to see more of your quilt.
I have put batting in every rag quilt I have made.
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