Color Me Quilty: poly batting

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

A Little Heartburn Among Other Things!

It was such fun to stitch out this week's homework from Leah Day. It consisted of stitching a shape, such as a heart, into the middle of some of the designs we already know, such as sharp stippling. When you combine the two you get Heartburn! ;)

Heartburn - Hearts and sharp stipple

Flowering Loop de Loop - four petal flowers with the loopy line

Whirlpools - stipple and spiral

Flowing Feathers - feathers with flowers.

The back

The best part was that although none of these design were perfect, or even that good, I didn't have a single thread break or birds nest or anything. All I had to do is just stitch. YAHOO! I used a piece of batting - poly extra-loft that I picked up to do my Library quilt. Not really thrilled with stitching on it, but it might be I just need to get used to it.

So my question for Leah today is about batting. I know that you like to use a higher loft poly batting and your pretty much stick to one kind. You probably have told us before, but what brand do you use? What do you like about this batting compared with others of this same type?

On to other projects this week, Yippee Skippee, I finished another WIP!