Here my two blocks from today, made all from batiks, with an added contrast fabric. One with high contrast!! and one with low contrast. I like them both...just different, aren't they?? I am having great fun with these! The quilt planned has twenty blocks, and I have seven made.
I am making pinwheel blocks from the cut off corners, and you know I love that!!
But...my other cut off corners that have sat patiently in their box for years got upset! "Make us into pinwheels too, they cried!" So, I am doing that too...only one zillion to go!
OK. I got to go to a quilt guild meeting, and it was pretty darn fun!! I brought a bunch of goodies for the free table, and they were snatched up...yahoo! On the free table was this piece of blue fabric. It is a fun stripe, so I tucked it in my bag to take home. THEN!!!
I unfolded it. It is about 28 inches, selvage to selvage, which I think may tell some of you the age of the fabric. I threw it in the washer, and washed and dried it. Modern quilt fabrics are 44-45 inches wide.
It feels so funky!! I cannot get a pin through it easily!! I cannot iron it flat, even though soaking it with spray starch and water!! It is slippery and squirrelly!! What is it!!? I love the subtle stripe and love the soft blue...but I will be darned if I know what it is. It looks like the end was cut on the bias, like someone used it for binding? LOL! It is FUNKY!! Do you know what it is??? I still like it, however...Hee!!!
Have a super day!
Julie
8 comments:
Julie have you done a burn test? It sounds like an early polyester. Good luck
If the burn test doesn't tell you, could it possibly be seer-sucker? I really don't think so, but..... ---"Love"
Before reading the other comments, I was also going to suggest the burn test. But I know nothing about the history of what fabrics were ever made 28" wide.
Your blocks are really fun, Julie. It will be a great quilt--have I said that before?
How large are those finished "leftover" pinwheels?
It might be pillow ticking, even though it is not a traditional ticking design. That would account for the very tight weave and the width.
Beats me what that fabric might have been for. I don't think I've ever seen any of that size.
My thought is the fabric is some type of poly decor.
What cute blocks!
I don't know what the fabric is but I do know that those blocks are awesome! :^D
Good luck with the one zillion to go. ;^)
Do you have a university close by with a textile department? Someone there might solve the mystery.
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