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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Hi Keith! I've never made window quilts, so I'm making it up as I go 
along. I know they should be weighted on the bottom so they hang against 
the window frame. I'm not getting very fancy. The front is a real quilt 
because being cheap...er..frugal...I'm using remnants I've been 
collecting from the $.25 table at Goodwill. There are two quilts, 5'x 9' 
each, to cover banks of windows in my enclosed porch. They let in lots 
of warmth on a sunny afternoon, but lots of cold at night.

I'm thinking of wool batting as insulation, because I have lots of it 
and it's free. I have a table carder, so I can make batts pretty easily. 
Add a cheap sheet on the back and tie the whole thing every few inches 
to hold the wool in place, like an old-fashioned quilt. I plan to add 
rings in the back to thread a rope and pull it up to open it.

Lynn Wigglesworth


keith bellinger wrote:
> I have a book in one of the dozen unpacked boxes in my office, about how 
> to make window quilts and such. Until I dig it out, got any pointers? 
> You aren't using milkweed fluff are you Lynn?
> 
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>> Today encouraged my to get working on my window quilts.
>>   
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