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Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 7:26 am    Post subject: Wool stuffed pillows and quilts Reply with quote
    

I was looking at some last week. I'm pretty sure they've been discussed on here before but I can't think what to search.

Anyway does anyone own them?

And has anyone made their own? I find myself looking at drum carders or wondering about the cost of getting a lot of fleeces washed and carded on a large scale. I seem to remember that its the spinning part that's (understandably) expensive?

chez



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have a drum carder you can borrow if you like. Are you skills sharing?

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We've got a quilt and 2 pillows, the quilt appears to be warmer in winter and cooler in summer than a feather one, the sheepy smell went within a couple of hours

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I would be stupidly optimistic too expect the sheep smell to leave this house Tahir!

Chez I would love to borrow your drum carder. Do you think Ali Bibbster would mind bringing it back for me? I'm not at the skill share this year.

chez



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I am sure she would be fine - it's not that big. Please do remind me though. It may need a new belt, I will check.

Finsky



Joined: 10 Sep 2011
Posts: 847
Location: Notts.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ok...you got my brain going now..
...is it matter of making 'sheets' of carded wool..stitching it to 'sandwich' between fabric layers.. and voila!..a quilted 'what ever' piece of material?.. first stitching it all roughly together before covering it all with 'better' fabric and then doing more thorough stiching?!...does this in theory sound right...?
When I was a nipper I used to have this VERY heavy quilt that had all manner of wool waste filling. I loved it! Once you got under it, you were truly 'tucked in' as you couldn't move much for the weight...
AND..it had PURPLE satin top cover and PURPLE cotton under lining...it was SO BEAUTIFUL! Everybody else in family had pale blue ones.
I would not mind making one ...PURPLE of course!!!

Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think you are thinking in the same way as me but I'm thinking duvets and pillows.

Old Welsh quilts were stuffed with sometimes raw barely washed lumps of fleece.

I'm wondering if fluffed up combed fleece would be better than layers, softer and bouncier. You wouldn't want it to felt at all.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cathryn wrote:
I'm wondering if fluffed up combed fleece would be better than layers, softer and bouncier. You wouldn't want it to felt at all.


You'd need compartments in the duvet to stop the stuff accumulating at one end

Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I might start smaller!

Although I suddenly see a market for ye olde traditional made in Wales quilt stuffed with welsh sheep (wool).

tahir



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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
You'd need compartments in the duvet to stop the stuff accumulating at one end


Or they'll end up like the ones my mum used to make stuffed with raw cotton when we were kids, god they weighed a ton. Shaking to redistribute the fluff was a many handed job

boisdevie1



Joined: 11 Aug 2006
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Location: Lancaster
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cathryn wrote:
I might start smaller!

Although I suddenly see a market for ye olde traditional made in Wales quilt stuffed with welsh sheep (wool).


Depending on price sounds like a lovely idea to me.

Finsky



Joined: 10 Sep 2011
Posts: 847
Location: Notts.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cathryn wrote:
I think you are thinking in the same way as me but I'm thinking duvets and pillows.

Old Welsh quilts were stuffed with sometimes raw barely washed lumps of fleece.

I'm wondering if fluffed up combed fleece would be better than layers, softer and bouncier. You wouldn't want it to felt at all.


Umm..hmm...the trouble is..I can't see the wool for not felting..for some extent anyway. Perhaps it is me..but I would rather have kind of even thickness for the duvet than lumps.

I'm still thinking..and as my mum is coming for her annual visit tomorrow..I will ask her if she knows/remember how those duvets were made Oh, I feel so much better now..there is some purpose for visit after all!!!! (what a horrid daughter I am... ) Back to my annual 'spring cleaning'..coffee break over!

Finsky



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Location: Notts.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

...another thought...Texel wool would be really good for duvet job...it is naturally VERY bouncy..short stable length and not felting very easily, if at all felting...quite cheap wool to get hold of...even begging some badly sheared fleeces from farmer would do the job..hmmm..
must start asking around where to get good quantity of it..there is plenty of those sheep around...though 'fresh' supply is not available until next year..

astra



Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 1243
Location: Somerset
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Finsky wrote:
Cathryn wrote:
I think you are thinking in the same way as me but I'm thinking duvets and pillows.

Old Welsh quilts were stuffed with sometimes raw barely washed lumps of fleece.

I'm wondering if fluffed up combed fleece would be better than layers, softer and bouncier. You wouldn't want it to felt at all.


Umm..hmm...the trouble is..I can't see the wool for not felting..for some extent anyway. Perhaps it is me..but I would rather have kind of even thickness for the duvet than lumps.



We've got Hampshire Downs sheep. their fleece is almost impossible to felt!!!
I've done cot mattresses and cot duvets for all my grandkids. Even after several years of use they really are barely felted even now!

Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 14 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'd like some of those.

We have a variety of different sheep and still have some texel crosses. Is there some list somewhere of what felts and what doesn't? If there isn't, I know someone who will know.

It's all mixed in now. The shed is full of sheets waiting to go. I am not going to be popular if I start trying to pull out particular ones. Finsky, I'd like to get some over to you, not sure how or even if I can get any out for me.

Next year however...

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