A Tip from Marybeth

 Yesterday Marybeth told me about Bonnie Hunter's website, Quiltville.  Most of you will be familiar with Bonnie Hunter's style of quilting.  She makes scrappy quilts in intricate traditional patterns and has been a popular teacher for years.  Marybeth has made two of her quilts, but with a controlled colour palette.  Bonnie Hunter's are somewhat controlled but she definitely has looser boundaries than most of us would feel comfortable with.

I just spent a few minutes exploring her website, particularly her Tips page.  I went to her discussion on threads and battings and whether it is ok to use poly thread and/or batting in a quilt.  Her conclusions surprised me, not because she was opposed to using poly battings--most of us don't use them--but because she had photos of an old quilt that the poly batting had actually worn out the cotton fabric of the quilt.  She said it had acted like a brillo pad every time the quilt was washed.  

Another thing that surprised me was her use of poly thread.  She reported that she has hundreds of quilts that go back for years and have been washed till they've fallen apart all with seams intact.  So, if you like to sew with poly thread you at least have Bonnie Hunter's stamp of approval.  

Marybeth recommended the website to me for the sayings at the end of her posts.  She saves them in a file.  I'm not sure if they are on all her posts.  Maybe it is a new thing.  But I did find one on the thread and batting post that I read and I have saved that one.

So get busy and quilt!