What do you look for in a batting?   Quality is important, of course.  The ability to machine wash and dry your quilts without worrying about excessive shrinkage is always a plus.  You want your needle to glide through nicely.  Quilters Dream Green is all of that, plus it’s wrinkle resistant.  Sounds like a dream already, doesn’t it. 

But that’s not all!  It’s GREEN too!   It’s made from recycled bottles.  Every pound of Quilters Dream Green Batting keeps 10 plastic bottles from our landfills.  Think of it – you can quilt away enjoying yourself AND know that you are helping the environment. 

Here’s how many bottles you will be keeping from the landfills with each size….

 Description      Size         Bottles kept from landfill

Craft           46” X 36”           3.5 bottles
Crib             46” X 60”           5.5 bottles
Throw          60” X 60”           7 bottles
Twin            93” X 72”          13 bottles
Double         96” X 72”          17 bottles
Queen        108” X  93”          24 bottles
King           122” X 122”         28 bottles

Isn’t that great?!  So get quilting and saving the environment. 

Of course, Quilters Dream Batting  is sold in many different styles and sizes and lofts and….

Kay Gentry of Noble Needle Quilts has lots of patterns available at Quilters Warehouse.  I had a chance to interview Kay recently.  Here’s what she had to say. 

How did you first become interested in quilting?
“I started sewing at age 8. Have sewn just about everything imaginable from upholstery to wedding dresses. My degree is in Textiles and Clothing from The Ohio State University. I made my first quilt in 1980. About 1996 I pretty much stopped doing other sewing to concentrate exclusively on quilting.”

Can you describe your first quilt?
“It was a brown sampler for a double bed. I used a red pen to trace around cereal box templates. I was completely self taught from an old quilting book. I hand quilted the quilt. It was marked with an early blue wash out pen and the residue of the marker has turned brown over the years.”

Do you have a favorite quilt block?
“I collect antique quilts and love the Grandmother’s Flower Garden pattern. I think I prefer to make appliqué blocks. Or combine appliqué and piecing.”

What is your favorite part of the quilt-making process?
“Show and tell with other quilters!”

…your least favorite part?
“Deciding what to do with the leftover fabrics after finishing a quilt.”

Do you ever hit a slump, and if so, how do you get out of it?
“Spending time with other quilters and seeing what they are working on can help. It can also happen by just picking up a magazine and seeing possible projects.”

Do you have favorite fabric color combinations?
“I prefer clear colors. I go in spurts of working with 30′s, Civil War, Batiks, florals, solids- but all in crisp clear colors.”

Do you prefer to hand quilt or machine quilt?

Thanks for your time Kay!  I have to agree, I never know what to do with my leftovers either.

Here’s a sampling of Noble Needle Designs . . .

Antique Garden

  Collide-O-Scope

Twirling Blooms