You need to consider fabrics and colors


Posted December 16, 2015 by knitting

You need to consider fabrics and colors: What type of fabric do you want to use? What do you want it to be made of? What colors?

 
You need to consider fabrics and colors: What type of fabric do you want to use? What do you want it to be made of? What colors?

Selecting a material for your quilt

Firstly, choose the type of material. Most quilts are made from 100% cotton or cotton mixes. Cotton is a very versatile, strong and natural material to work with, it is generally allergy free and is not flammable, unlike some man-made fibres such as rayon and polyester.

Synthetics and cotton mixes are sometimes a little more difficult to work with as they crease and pucker far more than 100% cotton does, however they are available in a really fantastic range of bright colors and pastels and can be very stunning in appearance. Synthetics can be difficult to quilt however as they have a “spongy” feeling, so if you are a beginner try to use 100% cotton or cotton mixes if you can.

Choosing a blush for your quilt

When allotment the blush and pattern, it is a abundant abstraction to accede what affectionate of affection you would like the batt to create. Don’t just attending at the actual aspect like who it is for and breadth it is going, aswell accede the acumen humans will be application it and how you would like them to feel if they are captivated up or lying beneath one of your admirable quilts.

Many quilters who are authoritative a batt for a friend, admired one or anyone appropriate will use some actual from that bodies activity – actual that ability beggarly something to the receiver. It could be the actual from their favour old dress or their children’s clothes, affection from their favourite set of bedding , their husbands plan shirts, grandma’s handkerchiefs or artlessly a admirable section of bolt that bent your eye one day.

Decide on a bolt for your quilt

When allotment the blazon of bolt and blush arrangement you charge to accommodate the blush into your called pattern. It is consistently a acceptable abstraction to just add up how abundant bolt of anniversary blush and blazon of bolt that you have, just so you don’t end up planning to use your favourite blazon to accomplish a advanced boarder and again award out afterwards that you alone accepting abundant for 3 sashes!

Likewise, if you are authoritative a axial burden or there is a accurate bolt that you wish to affection on your quilt, accomplish abiding to plan out whether you accept abundant to awning the area.

A abundant tip is to consistently buy a little added than you anticipate you are traveling to use. That way you will be safe from active abbreviate and afterwards you accept fabricated a brace of altered quilts you can accomplish a Rag batt breadth you use all the debris from your quilts to accomplish a ablaze bright and bargain quilt.

Remember if adornment and slotting your fabrics and colors into your arrangement that, while some fabrics attending absurd in sheets, they not consistently accept the aforementioned aftereffect if cut into 2″x2″ or even 5″x5″ squares and may not accord the aforementioned address as a accomplished section of material.

Likewise bolt that you feel is ‘boring’ or don’t decidedly like may about attending absurd if in tiny squares or acclimated as appliqué rather than as a ample block of color.

Remember aswell if application blooming bolt to accomplish baby squares or geometric shapes, that these have to be cut actual accurately as if you appear to run of advance and go hardly askance it will be actual obvious, as about the animal eye is actual acceptable at spotting a beeline line, or in this case a not-so-straight line!

Hints on choosing colors for your quilt

When considering color and tone you might want to remember that warmer colors – reds, yellows, oranges, purples and anything with a lot of red in it always appear closer, whereas cool colors – blues, greens, and bluey-purples will appear further away.

Warmer colors tend to make people more alert and active and cooler colors are much more soothing and will calm and quieten someone.

Always make sure to think about these subliminal effects you might want to consider putting a brighter color quilt in a lounge room or as a wall hanging and leave the cooler colored quilts to the bedroom … but that is up to you!

Please make sure your fabrics are colorfast and not too heavy or too light. If you fabric is really heavy, like denim or canvas, then it will be very difficult to quilt. On the other hand, if it is woven too loose, like organza, then it will be very flimsy and also difficult to quilt!More information, please visit: http://knittingfabric.cc/
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Last Updated December 16, 2015