Mary Beth Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Okay, I\'m a little bored, I think I need a life.... Here is my machine after using the Fairfield 80/20 batting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 and another... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 I hate that batting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandraC Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Wow, fluffy stuff! I just finished a quilt with that white on white fabric that\'s kind of painted on the fabric....lots of white gooey dust stuck everywhere....I should add on a cleaning-the-machine charge for quilts like this. Sandra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Looks like snow drifts! Time for the pastry brush and compressed air I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenMcManus Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Wow! That\'s a lot of fluff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 I delivered the quilt yesterday. It looks very good, but you can\'t go wrong with Leaf Pile. Anywho, I showed the customer how easy it is to put your finger through the bat or to just stretch it. I told her how I popped it into the dryer and it came out leaving my jacket coated in fuzz. Then I showed her my samples of QD 70/30 and she was amazed at the difference. She told me that she was just trying to get the right size batting, and didn\'t know there was a difference in the makeup of the matterial. She wanted to know if all machine quilters carried their own batting. it was fun to be able to educate her on this, since she didn\'t know anything about. Don\'t think she will be using that stuff again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrna Ficken Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 I think you are okay with your life but you could use a good shot of air! WOW it\'s even on you micro drive knobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 It was everywhere!! Ick! Along my light bar, on my micro drive, I think it was even between my teeth!! Ick!! I just cleaned her up and gave her a huge shot of 40 pound air! She is breathing a whole lot better now, poor girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Holy cow, that looks like the mother of Furbys... what were you using on it?? How many bobbins had you used? I guess that\'s a good reason to use a compressor or at the least canned air. RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenscratch Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 THAT"S why I hate that batting; and my customer loves it. She won\'t even think of anything else. I\'d love to see one of her quilts done with a nice batting. she does such wonderful work. MaryBeth, methinks we may need to start wearing painter\'s respirators when we use this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Originally posted by chickenscratch MaryBeth, methinks we may need to start wearing painter\'s respirators when we use this stuff. So true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 methinks me ain\'t using that stuff again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 My nose is itchin\' just looking at your pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Mary Beth, Do you think it\'s more the batting than the thread? Both really I guess. I know everyone uses canned air and brushes, but I have another approach to lint. I bought this small Shop Vac "Hang Up" Mini at Target last year. It comes with it\'s own hang up base and is attached under my frame on left front leg. The hanging base comes with it. Very compact and small. I use it all the time to vacuum out the bobbin case area, down around the tracks, needle, under the frame ---wherever. I look at it this way--- I\'m not pushing lint into the back of the lower casing of the machine, instead I\'m sucking it out and away. It works great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Wow, what a great idea. I use DH\'s shop vac to vac my floor since I don\'t want to spend the rest of the day cleaning the beater bar on my regular vac. That would be a handy little thing to have. Yes, it was the batting that created all the fuzz. It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life!! I keep my machine very clean and oiled. I knew when I took this stuff out of the bag and tried to spread it out that it was going to be T-R-O-U-B-L-E! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaB Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 GROSS!!!!! It almost looks like some kind of fungus.....YIKES!!! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiltsinmotion Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Oh my gosh , too much fuzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Mary Beth, I just thought of something today.. with the Hobbs, the fursbys settled down when I started to quilt.. hasn\'t been a problem since, even when we took it off the frame and did a bunch of frog dancing. I actually had very little fuzzies around the machine, top or bottom. RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Rita, I don\'t have problems with Hobbs. There is some fuzz, more than with QD. But Fairfield - not ever again!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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