What is Benartex cotton?

Benartex is a leading supplier of creative 100% designer cotton prints. Our goal is to provide a large selection of beautiful, fine quality cotton prints to the creative women and men worldwide who design and make quilts, crafts, wearable art, and home decorating items.

Is Benartex fabric good quality?

Sandra Binkley recommends Benartex, LLC. They have beautiful good quality fabric in many different styles.

What is the best brand of quilting fabric?

Quilting Fabric – Brands

• Timeless Treasures Fabrics.
• Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
• Wilmington Prints.
• Marcus Fabrics.
• Free Spirit Fabrics.
• Moda Fabrics.
• Clothworks Fabrics.
• Windham Fabrics.

What is the best brand of quilting cotton?

Quilting Fabric – Brands

• Wilmington Prints.
• Marcus Fabrics.
• Free Spirit Fabrics.
• Moda Fabrics.
• Clothworks Fabrics.
• Hoffman Fabrics.
• Windham Fabrics.
• Andover Fabrics.

What is the softest cotton fabric for quilting?

Voile is a lightweight cotton that is soft, silky, and somewhat transparent. The fabric has been popular for making clothes for many years but it has begun to gain popularity as a quilting fabric as well.

What is the best quality quilting fabric?

Quilter’s weight cotton is high quality 100% cotton fabric perfectly suited for quilting. It’s typically accepted as the best fabric for quilting. While quilter’s weight cotton does have shrinkage, it typically shrinks less than cheaper cotton fabrics.

Can I make a quilt with different types of fabric?

Absolutely! Many “greats” in the quilting world mix fiber types within a project to increase the interest, texture, and overall design of the project. Remember, there are no quilting police and your quilt will be just as beautiful and interesting as your choices of fabrics and fibers allow.

How can you tell quality of quilting fabric?

Quality quilting fabrics have high thread counts. Thread count refers to the number of threads woven per square inch of the fabric. Choose a fabric that has thread counts between 68 and 78. Quilting fabrics in this thread count range are thicker, denser, and more durable.

What is the difference between quilting fabric and regular fabric?

Quilting cotton is fabric made from 100% cotton. Quilting cotton is a medium weight fabric depending on the manufacturer, and it has a lot body. It tends to hold it’s shape even after being washed. Some fabric companies have started to make lighter weight quilting cottons so that they can be made into clothing.

Can I mix flannel and cotton in a quilt?

If you’re always sewing a flannel to a flannel or always a flannel to a quilting cotton… no problem, you just set the seam allowance, test, tweak and go. Flannel is a very forgiving fabric to work with and an extra pin here and there to hold things in place should take care of everything.

Can you mix linen and cotton in a quilt?

It is possible to successfully combine linen and quilting cottons for patchwork. Quilting densely will help, as can a wider seam allowance. Four years ago I made my friend a quilt combining quilting cotton and linen. I used regular 1/4″ seam allowances, so I finished all linen seam allowances with a zigzag stitch.

Does flannel make a good quilt?

Good quality flannel sheets are perfect for quilt backings, and even for cutting up for piecing. Old flannel shirts can be good for piecing, too. Buy extra fabric to allow for shrinkage. The width of the fabric is likely to be narrower than standard quilting cotton, so take that into account also.