I have these templates.
Back story: Before blogging, I was ACTIVE on a couple yahoo lists & before flickr, I lurked on webshots. I found a quilt in progress that used this template - I talked one of my yahoo group buddies who was also a webshotter to ask what templates the lady was using, she updated her webshot information & the rest is history. They vend at the Lancaster show annually - so I jotted down the information & made my purchase the next year. I printed off all of the instructions & made grandiose plans in my head.
Several years later, I still have the templates, I still have not used them.
I am not sure how many of you have been to Minka's Studio - Martha has... Anyway Minka posted this lovely quilt which reminded me of my forlorn templates. & it inspired Martha to do this.
So my odd question is this: Can you mix batting in a project like this? I ask the question, because I have a quilt being long armed with a wool batt & I have one scheduled to be quilted with a silk batt & I plan to use a bamboo batt on the Kittens quilt(s). In addition to the cotton poly that I have on hand from all kinds of locations...
BTW if you have a photoless post, link the heck out of it!
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I think I have the templates to make that quilt too. Do you sew the circles together and then turn them?
I say yes yes yes you can mix the batting. why not? it is the perfect way to use those scraps. I did mine with no batting and I think it would make a nice summer spread that way. I also used this pattern a while back-much bigger- using nine patches as the center square. also nice.
I think it would depend on how you are going to treat the finished quilt. If I planned to wash the quilt I would either use the same batting through out or make sure that the battings that I am using are all pre-washed/pre-treated in the way that I will treat the quilt. It's a cool looking quilt!
It would depend on if they have different care instructions. If one said no dry clean, and the other one said dry clean only, I wouldn't put those two together. As long as all the batting (and fabric) allow you to do what you want to do with it, then it would be perfectly fine.
I'd say GO FOR IT!
I don't mix batting in a single quilt. Although I frequently piece leftover batting bits, I wouldn't want a different loft or to have issues when washing a quilt so I always make sure I'm using the same type of batting.
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