How to Maintain Your Quilt?

How to maintain your quilt? | Blankets made of various fabrics, some of them are more fragile than others from time to time, and thus need to be taken proper care. Follow a few basic tips to take care of all your blankets, if you handle, store, or clean them.

Tips on handling covers:

• You should always wash your hands or wear cotton gloves when handling your quilt. 
• You must not eat, drink or smoke around a blanket. 
• You should keep a blanket on the surface is clean and dry.

Tips to save blanket:

• You must keep your blanket in a cool, dark, dry. Avoid storing blankets in the attic as the attic has very poor ventilation. Do not keep a blanket in the basement, as the basement is very humid.
• You must keep your quilt out of direct sunlight. Ultraviolet light from the sun is responsible for breaking down and accelerate oxidation dye fabric fibers.
• You must make sure that the blanket away from insects and rodents.
• The best way to store blankets or boxes are acid free paper. However, they can also be folded in a clean cotton sheets or washed.
• You need to make sure you do not pile too many blankets folded on top of each other. Also covers the need to open and fold every three to six months to avoid tangling the extreme.
• You should avoid storing blankets in plastic because it contains hazardous vapors, which may deteriorate the fabric.
• Wooden boxes can also be used for storage as long as they are sealed with polyurethane varnish defensive cover, and then coated with bleached muslin or acid-free paper washed.
• You should avoid to storing your blankets in the paper and cardboard, because they are full of rot damaging agents.

The Crafts of Patchwork

The crafts of patchwork | What do you do if there are some fabrics in your home that  not used anymore? You may be thinking to throw it, but would not you think that these fabrics can be most beneficial even making money for you?

Patchwork is leftover fabric or Patchwork which is seen some people are not useful anymore. But in the hands of people who are creative, patchwork can be transformed into a beautiful bed covers, blankets, curtains, bags, dolls, coasters, and others. Utilization patchwork can to beautify the room, living room, or in any corner of the house. Patchwork, quilting and applique are techniques in the utilization of patchwork.

Quilts, Patchwork & Applique are a handicraft based fabric rag organized and laid out, and combined by modern skills, resulting in works that have artistic value and scope of art.

In details of the meaning of Quilts, Patchwork & Applique as follows: Patchwork is the art of preparing and combining patchwork of different colors and patterns to follow repetitive patterns by hand or sewn machine , while Applique is the art of forming an image of the piece of cloth and taped onto the surface of the fabric by using sutures hand or machine anyway. Both of art is then refined with sewing techniques oppressed (Quilts). This technique performed after inserting a type of foam called Dacron / silicon between sheets of cloth the same size. The result will be more tidy and has a thickness that provides the beauty and uniqueness.

Use of this rag fabric in addition to fill the time for mothers and young women may also provide additional entry for them. The raw material used is very cheap because it comes from the rest of the fabric that is not used anymore. Quilting has a pretty good business opportunity because the products are unique and creative. The artisans of quilting is still small. Therefore, there are many opportunities for women and girls to develop this quilting business.