Save the Planet from Plastic Bottles with Extra Wide Fabric

Saving the Planet from Plastic Bottles

At Quilt Sandwich we are proud to announce that we have teamed up with a wonderful group of fabric scientists in Java, Indonesia to manufacture the worlds first Extra Wide Fabric for Quilt Backs made entirely from Recycled Plastic Bottles.

Our Fabric Scientists in Java (Fabricists as they prefer to be known) have sourced millions of Plastic Bottles from mountains in Maldives.  Although the Maldives is one of the lowest lying countries in the world they had a mountain the size of Snowdon made entirely of discarded Plastic Bottles.

Indeed when it rained it was so large that people were even able to surf on it!

The wonderful thing with this product is that it is 100% made from recycled material, it is ideal for your quilt backs. Following the developments by our Fabricists it is now as soft as 100% cotton and is wonderful for either Longarm Machining, Hand Sewing or domestic machining.

An additional benefit to this product is that it is 100% waterproof and so your quilt will never get wet and any quilt shows in the UK can be safely ran in even the worst British Summer conditions.  This has been extensively tested in back gardens throughout the land already with massive success.

We are pleased to announce that following the extensive manufacturing we now have a sample shipment of 50,000m of product in a container UK bound.

As this product is 100% recycled we have priced it extremely competitively.  At QuiltSandwich we want to save the Planet one Bolt of Extra Wide Fabric at a time and so we are offering this product at cost. 

Although the development of the product has taken six years and 4,000,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah to come to this point we are happy to pass this development on at only £8.00 per metre for the Extra wide Fabric at 108" wide!

Should you wish to place an advance order please contact us by email at Quilt@royalhotelbrid.co.uk

The fabric will be available soon in the online shop - click here

Customer Quilts & International Quilting Day

Although we have now had our ABM Innova Longarm quilting machine since October, we have only just started to offer the service to others.

We wanted to be totally confident before we worked on other peoples precious quilts and so we quilted over 50 charity tops first, to get a good feel for the procedure and to experience various different problems and challanges a longarm quilter faces.

This week I have quilted several customer tops.  One lady received her parcel from the carrier on Thursday and she rang absolutely thrilled to bits with her quilt - Phew!  She has also allowed me to share it with you.

The pattern she chose is called Triange Triangle and the full finishing service was requested.

My next customer brought in a bedrunner and requested Waskily Rabbit.  Its so cute.

here is the back

Next is a japanese style quilt

Pattern is - Calm Water

Again the full finishing service was requested for this quilt.

Here is a wholecloth quilt which was designed in the retreat with Lilian Hedley here at The Royal Bridlington. I have layered this up and basted on the longarm for this customer so its now ready for hand quilting.

What a great week, four very happy customers with four very different quilts, plus the company of lovely quilters who were here on a retreat with Lilian Hedley and then rounded off with International Quilting Day.

Today, to celebrate I worked on my own top and also made a You Tube Video.

The pattern is called Bubbles Everywhere and here is the quilt off the frame - just the binding to do now.