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I have lots of old hankies. I want to make a quilt with these, I do NOT want to make them in blocks, I want to sew them together, overlap, cut in half etc. What kind of tread do I use? and when I'm
finished can this be machine quilted and still look good, or are the hankies to thin to machine quilt? Hope someone knows. I saw one like this at the Iowa State fair several years ago and made big mistake by not looking at it carefully

I just did a google on hankie quilts:

http://images.google.com/images?q=%22ha ... a=N&tab=wi

Are any of these the quilt you saw?

Hello Omaquilter1,
I have a web site that I seen in this magazine and it talked about hankies and quilting them. visit their website, quilter's muse, at www.quiltersmuse.com I think you will find this interesting. I read the article in the quilter magazine May 2009. It talked about a hankie quilts. One was made by a lady that was just folded and not permanently attached. www.oldhankies.com. I'm new to quilting too and I hope this helps and I use to live by springfield area and go to Branson and I bought the magazine at Joanns store. I hope the weather is nice down their. Have a great day.

Hi! I have seen some cute patterns, but where does one buy hankies, & not at a terribly expensive price, if ones wants to play with this idea?

Thanks!

Nancy...

Nancy, start visiting flea markets. That's what I did when I wanted to use doilies in the teacup block swap but didn't want to pay the price for brand new ones.

Girl
Thanks I will check those web site's..bit to cold down here !!

I got a lot of my hankies when a young girl....and than I went to some auctions and bought boxes of them

I can say it's not too warm here. Freeze warnings for tonight again and not going to be warm this week. I hope it does get warm their the theme parks are opening and I hate cold weather when I go their. Have a good day.

Evie
Thanks I think I found the way to make the hankie quilt, now to find the time to do it. Thanks again