Quilters Dream Green 122"
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SKU:
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Batting made from recycled plastic bottles!! Save the landfill! More details... |
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Product Details
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Quilters Dream Green Truly Green Batting Earth-Friendly Batting made 100% from Recycled Plastic Bottles!
 | Quilters Dream Green Dream Green is a soft, cozy batting made 100% from recycled plastic bottles! Dream Green meets our highest standards of quality, function and performance. Your needles will glide through this unique eco-friendly batting. Finished quilt may be machine-washed and dried with little to no shrinkage. | | Select Loft | Mid loft. Emphasizes stitch definition. | | Very good for hand quilting. | | Excellent for long and short arm machine quilting. | | Stitches up to 12" apart. | | No prewashing necessary. No shrinkage in a cold wash, air dried. 1% shrinkage in a warm wash, warm dry. Remember, your prewashing and selection of fabrics and thread will also effect shrinkage. |
Each pound of Dream Green Batting keeps 10 plastic bottles out of our landfills. Plastic bottles are cut into chips, washed, melted and extruded into fine polyester fibers. These recycled fibers are indistinguishable from “virgin” polyester fibers yet are made without depleting our precious natural resources. To avoid additional processing we have kept the soft “natural” green bottle color – but you can rest assured that Dream Green is colorfast and compatible to all your finest quilts and projects. Dream Green has been carded, crosslapped and needlepunched for uniformity, strength, and resiliency. There is no scrim or resins yet you can stitch up to 12” apart! Utilizing eco-efficient recycling Quilters Dream has developed a wonderful quilt batting that truly accomplishes the meaning of “green.”
GREEN FACTS: Studies show that the energy saved by recycling a single plastic bottle – as compared to producing a new one from scratch – is enough to power a single 60-watt bulb for six hours. The amount of petroleum saved annually by using postconsumer bottles instead of virgin materials in the manufacturing process is enough to supply power to a city the size of Atlanta for an entire year! It is reported the process of recycling plastic bottles results in a 66% reduction of energy consumption, nearly 90% reduction of water usage and reduction of carbon dioxide by 2.5 times.
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