White-on-white fabric

What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep

I consider it a white fabric with an imprinted design that is in a subtlely
different shade of white. The fabric reads pretty much solid white -- but
when you look closely -- or it catches the light you can see the design.



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Kate in MI
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"Edna Pearl" wrote in message
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What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep

Edna Pearl wrote:
What is white-on-white fabric?


Pretty, very pretty :-) It is fabric that has a white pattern embossed
onto a white base fabric. Hard to explain. The url below is from one
of the shops on quiltshops.com I narrowed my search to Fairy Frost just
because I love it but there were about 30,000 for "white on white"!

http://tinyurl.com/yjfev5z

I hope that helps.

Rita

--
Rita L. in MA One Eyed Mutant Ninja Quilter :-)

Edna Pearl wrote:
What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep



I have heard that it can be hard to hand quilt through WoW- not that I
have any personal experience, you understand.

Allison (it's MQ for me or not at all!)

Be very persnickety about choosing a WOW. Many years ago I made a quilt top
of precious little hummingbirds. Paperpieced and those guys' little beaks
were a challenge. Anyhow. The white-on-white defied machine quilting. Now
that I'm older and more ruthless, a size 100 jeans needle might have done it
but that fabric was such a beast I gave the quilt to Yogi. He likes it
fine. I suspect the recipe for making the white design on that white fabric
had too much cement in it. Polly


"Allison" wrote in message
news
Edna Pearl wrote:
What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep

I have heard that it can be hard to hand quilt through WoW- not that I
have any personal experience, you understand.

Allison (it's MQ for me or not at all!)

On Apr 1, 4:33*pm, "Edna Pearl"
wrote:
What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep

EP,
I thinnk Kate's description is perfect. I'm surprised to hear that
folks are saying it's hard to hand-quilt (or in Polly's case even MQ)
through. That has not been my experience at all and I've used many
different WOW's for tops and many other tone-on-tone (same concept -
different colors) for tops and/or backs with no difficulties
whatsoever. I love WOW or TOT much more than actual solids for those
areas that I want the quilt to 'read' solid.

Kim in beautiful, sunny, warm NJ

I was reading one of Diane Gaudynski's book, and she mentioned it as being
difficult to MQ, especially as a backing, because it drags. So I figured we
were probably talking about some kind of textured surface.

Thanks everybody.

ep


"Polly Esther" wrote in message
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Be very persnickety about choosing a WOW. Many years ago I made a quilt
top of precious little hummingbirds. Paperpieced and those guys' little
beaks were a challenge. Anyhow. The white-on-white defied machine
quilting. Now that I'm older and more ruthless, a size 100 jeans needle
might have done it but that fabric was such a beast I gave the quilt to
Yogi. He likes it fine. I suspect the recipe for making the white design
on that white fabric had too much cement in it. Polly


"Allison" wrote in message
news
Edna Pearl wrote:
What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep

I have heard that it can be hard to hand quilt through WoW- not that I
have any personal experience, you understand.

Allison (it's MQ for me or not at all!)

On Apr 1, 4:20*pm, Allison wrote:
Edna Pearl wrote:
What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep

I have heard that it can be hard to hand quilt through WoW- not that I
have any personal experience, you understand. *

Allison (it's MQ for me or not at all!)

I bought some once that was darn near impossible to handquilt. I can
usually handquilt pretty decently, but this one I sure didn't. Talk
about
some toe-catching stitches.
The pattern had little birds and leaves on it. The "tone" in the "tone
on tone"
almost seemed like a rubbery substance.

Sherry

On Apr 1, 6:17*pm, AuntK wrote:
On Apr 1, 4:33*pm, "Edna Pearl"
wrote:

What is white-on-white fabric?

TIA
ep

EP,
I thinnk Kate's description is perfect. *I'm surprised to hear that
folks are saying it's hard to hand-quilt (or in Polly's case even MQ)
through. *That has not been my experience at all and I've used many
different WOW's for tops and many other tone-on-tone (same concept -
different colors) for tops and/or backs with no difficulties
whatsoever. *I love WOW or TOT much more than actual solids for those
areas that I want the quilt to 'read' solid.

Kim in beautiful, sunny, warm NJ

I really like the look of the WOW also. I saw some new ones at LQS
that
were block alphabet letters, and one that was cursive alphabet
letters. I';d
love to use them. Very subtle.

Sherry

On Apr 1, 4:34*pm, "Polly Esther" wrote:
Be very persnickety about choosing a WOW. *Many years ago I made a quilt top
of precious little hummingbirds. *Paperpieced and those guys' little beaks
were a challenge. *Anyhow. *The white-on-white defied machine quilting. *Now
that I'm older and more ruthless, a size 100 jeans needle might have done it
but that fabric was such a beast I gave the quilt to Yogi. *He likes it
fine. *I suspect the recipe for making the white design on that white fabric
had too much cement in it. *Polly

Diane Gaudynski warns against using w-o-w fabrics unless you do a
sample piece before machine quilting. Some of them leave a dark grey/
black mark in the needle hole. I know this from experience since I
took a w-o-w fabric to use in one of her classes. I was the example
of what NOT to do! Everybody has a purpose, huh?