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Many years ago , before I thought I would ever have an embroidery machine, I purchased some embroidered squares with care bears on them from eBay..... I have found them after rummaging for something else, and I would like to put them into a quilt for my GD, who is collecting care bears, now, my question is that it appears that they have been embroidered on a poly cotton material and I want to put 100% cotton material that co-ordinates the blocks would you suggest that I use interfacing on the embroidered blocks to give them support against the cotton, or should I use them for something else, I have 12 of them ?? Ideas and suggestions most welcome. Thanks heaps Trish.
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graceandham
04 Feb 2016
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Weren't Care Bears mostly in the late 1970's and 1980's? Ten years from now that quilt should be in good condition, but the Care Bear squares might be 45 years towards rotten?? Maybe they're newer than I think...
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thanks for your comments, these squares are only about 6years old MAX , I had them in amongst my material stash, I have material a lot older than these squares and the material is fine, hugs to you Trish
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I am not a quilter but have mixed and matched cotton and poly cotton I just make sure I have washed the 100% Cotton incase of shrinkage. In fact I would wash everything including the embroidered squares.
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OK, Thanks, I will wash everything before I cut , as you say, just in case. appreciate you replying, Trish
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I have mixed cotton and poly cotton (and some other fabrics we won't mention) a lot in quilts. If your poly cotton is thin, then you would want to put an iron on nylon type interfacing on the back. (The kind you use for t-shirt quilts.) Then you would be fine to add your cottons. I have made a lot of quilts from clothing and linens of the departed and used a lot of iron on interfacing to be able to mix fabrics and machine wash.
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thanks for your advice, much appreciated, I will get some of the interfacing, the material in the blocks does feel a bit thin, that is what I was concerned about, I really want this quilt to look good, my GD will be 18 in May, and she has been collecting the small carebears all her life, so she will love this. The material I have to co-ordinate is also carebear material, the clouds that the bears are sitting on actually glows in the dark, so I am looking forward to do this and seeing it turn out. Thanks again for helping. Trish