I learned a lot from YHO. Thanks!

....my humble opinion...

MHO?

Now I understand..missed a sentence !! I've made more wall pieces than anything else...
I don't like Warm and Natural because it holds a crease , but is great for table ware as it is flat and
launders well. Generally , if a hanging is supported with a rod pocket...top and bottom if necessary..
and is flat with no side ripples....any batting is good ..8o-20 blends, wool generally lower loft...bonded
polys like thermal lam lay very flat to the wall....I just don't like the stiffness. Gets right down to
personal preference !! Wool is my favorite...tho' I don't always have it on hand.
All just MHO , of course.

PosyP wrote:
I really like warm and natural. I've used it for my wall hangings. Haven't used wool for a wall hanging yet but I think it would be nice. It has a memory and helps creases from folding fall out I hear. I think many of the prize winning quilts are something like warm & natural with a thin wool bat on top. I wonder what Ricky used in those ones you saw hanging. Whatever he uses is thin and it hangs nicely.

I agree with Nancy on the use of wool for adding puff. I don't have enough experience to say what works best for hanging on a wall. For me, it was a toss-up between cotton and 80-20 cotton blend for the CW. In the end, I used the Quilter's Dream 80-20 cotton-polyester blend. I did some research on what well-known quilters use in shows and what some of my favorite exhibitors used as well as called the folks at Quilter's Dream and that is how I ended up with a toss-up between cotton and cotton blend. I'm sure part of it is a personal preference.

I feel like cotton holds the weight of the quilt on the wall better. If I want puff, I use a cotton base layer and a wool top layer.

Nancy

Seeing as I am still working on Caught red-handed, and have a shopping list for Great Northern quilt show, I won't be cutting fabric until September..... eeekkkkkkkkk!

By the way what hangs best on walls? wool or cotton batt?

Well, I was quaking while Marilyn was still working on her quilt, but then I'm a worrier....

No matter how simple, I know yours will be incredibly beautiful and the workmanship will be perfect, Rosemary, so do whatever design makes you happy. I'm just counting the days now until we get to see all of the quilts!

Nancy

Actually it can take up to a week to get to us from the UK. But it doesn't usually take that long from here. For example Terrie's mug rug only took 5 days from here to Canada, and Norma's only took 3 days from here to Denmark. Post can be a tricky pancake and a peculiar beast.

At the time of my CW quilt, I had totally miscalculated the deadlines and thought we each had 60 days to complete our quilts, not 51 days. So when I got the word from Nancy that she was getting ready to mail the quilt and sent me a photo of hers to ponder, I was nowhere near ready, and had definitely not cleaned my sewing room. Being number 5 on the list, I erroneously thought I still had over a month to go, but the quilt arrived anyway! At least you won't make that mistake! You're now confident that you should receive your quilt about 14 October, right? It does not take more than two days for a package to get to you from Rosemary, does it?