I want to make the Drunkard’s Path quilt a good-sized lap quilt, so I need to prep some more of the Rouenneries charms for printing. I already know that I can print both pieces of a Drunkard’s Path unit on a 5″ charm, so it’s a matter of ironing them on to the freezer paper that I have already cut to size and then feeding them through my printer. Here you can see that I’ve separated them by colour as I will use different ink colours for printing, depending on the fabric colour. Some of those pieces of freezer paper have been used 10 or 15 times already and are still fine for another few uses.
One thing I have learned is that even 5″ charms shrink when washed and not evenly. There’s almost a full quarter inch shrinkage in width or length, depending on how you look at it, when these little charms are washed and pressed.
I received the Clothworks e-mail yesterday with news of their upcoming collections and immediately fell in love with the Hungarian Blues collection that you can see here. Blue and white quilts are among my absolute favourites and these fabrics are stunning. I know I’m going to want yardage of every one of those when the fabric is available. I’m already dreaming of a blue and white Winding Ways quilt or perhaps a Dresden Plate in blue and white.
Smudge has the funniest look on his face in this photo.
Lester, on the other hand, is looking somewhat majestic.
Quilt Obsession 
I really love the drunkard’s path. One of my favorites and it just amazes me that you are doing it all by hand! Yes, majestic is the word for Lester today.
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Oooo I can see some of those blues hitting my stash too. It surprised me too, when I saw how much some of those charms shrink.
Crispy
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Informative post. Very cool. Interesting to note the Charms shrink when washed – unevenly. A full quarter inch shrinkage in width or length – depending on how you look at it. Trippy! Again, very interesting.
What color do you print with when you’re using light color fabrics?
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Thank you for stopping by and joining my followers. I see you have some of my favorites, winding ways, dunkard’s path, and spools. Your workmanship is precise and striking.
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I love getting your posts by email now! LOL I am glad you talked about the charms shrinking when washed, how does that affect the Inklingo printing at the 5 inch size?
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Love the Hungarian Blues collection — I keep saying I’m going to make a blue and white quilt one of these days.
I have a question — what kind of printer do you use and how do you manage to print without the freezer paper curling. Whenever I print fabric labels and iron the fabric to the freezer paper it ALWAYS jams or curls and the leading edge gets all messed up. I’ve tried a couple different kinds of printers, all with the same results.
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Wow, a full quarter inch shrinkage — that’s a lot! I hate it when fabrics shrink, especially unevenly, so I always try to prewash. What I don’t understand is why we can’t buy them pre-shrunk?
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Cathi, you know I am in love with this project of yours…. can’t wait to see more!
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I have some pieces of original Hungarian blue fabrics. They have some kind of a chintz look. The clothworks collections looks wonderful! I can picture a winding ways quilt!
I love your Rouenneries project and all the hexagons!
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