country classics???

[Sasha Anzures]

i just purchased five yards of black at joanns and after i got outside it doesn't seem like very good quality fabric to me....im pretty sure it is country classics. anyone work with it and what are your opinions on it???

[Jean Sewing Machine]

I've gotten spoiled by Kona And Moda solids. You can count on them to perform well, and they feel so good to the touch. I know Joanns has several price points of solid color fabrics, I would just get the bet you can afford. You put a lot of work into making a quilt, the materials should be a good quality to hoLd up.

[MRoy]

I've never tried it. I can get Kona solids at my local fabric shop and I really like them.

[Bubby]

I used Kona cotton for many years....love the wide range of colors. My new favorite solid is Bella Solids. It's often on sale here at M*. I prefer the weave of the Bella.

[Sasha Anzures]

thanks you guys!!! i usually use both of the recomended...but my dh was with me shopping and actually said i could go to the fabric store so i was rushing so he wouldn't get annoyed and i just grabed first solid black i could find that was in my price range. turns out i don't like it. it is thin and feels rouph. will stick to tried and true next time!

[Debbie MM]

Thank you all for telling me about Kona, I looked at the Country Classic in black and was disappointed, other colors are fine in that line

[coffeebreak]

IF it is the same Country Classics I have bought...it is 50% cotton and 50% polyester and terrible for quilting! To thin and to stretchy. I found this out the hard way! They had it on sale and I got 2 yards of every color - on two different trips!. Then when I used it for quiting, the sqs' didn't match up, it stretched...just wasn't able to make it work, then finding out it was cause of the poly in it and it stretching and being so thin...just cutting a square with a template, would stretch the fabric. So my advise is to not use it for quilting.

HOWEVER... with so much on hand, I have found that it is great for the binding on a quilt..just enough stretch to provide a little "give" that helps the binding to lay correctly and just thin enough that when I make the binding and fold it in half, sew and then fold it over...the thinness is just enough to accomodate the fours layers the binding ends up without being to stiff and bulky.

I also have been experimenting with it as smaller squares...No bigger than 4" and I don't work with anything smaller than 3". But if I am doing sqs or something like that... I can use one cot/poly and 1or2 cotton alternating. THat way...the cotton holds things together and the one poly in between, doesn't stretch. I also cut the poly pieces a smidge bigger (1/16th..it does make a big difference) I am working on one today that I had 4 colors...2 were cotton 2 were the poly blend and it has worked fine. Oh, I also spray startch the fabric before I cut the squares, the cut the sqs, then spray again before I start assembly. So I am slowly but surely useing up my "investment", and at the same time...not having to drive myself nuts with fabric that doesn't work.

[Sasha Anzures]

OH that sounds great cheri about useing it as binding....my son wants a black and yellow quilt so black binding would work for it!!!! thanks for sharing so i am not mad at my investment!!!!