Help! Mouse tore all batting from one side of pinned quilt sandwich!
 

I pinned DS's twin-size quilt sandwich and laid it out on the sofa so it wouldn't wrinkle before I got the machine back from repair and could quilt it. That was Saturday. If was fine last night. Tonight I came home from work and found the entire long-side lower edge had been attacked and batting ripped out all ragged.

Can you see from the pictures? The whole length is torn up. Must have for a been a whole mouse hotel.
What to do? I can't quilt it because not enough batting, and I already trimmed the sides to 2 1/2" all round. Can I carefully unpin and try to attach another piece/pieces of batting along that edge?

Does Joannes have something to tape together batting? LQS?

Appreciate any advice
thanks

there is an iron on tape that is specifically for batting - not sure Joann's has it but your local quilt shop should. Can also be found on line.

Yes, Joanns has it. Batting tape.

http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponlin...ay.asp?i=30053
Here is a link to the tape with a video on how it works. I know Elanor used it on a quilt that was already pinned in one of her videos, but don't remember which one.

My pups have done this to my quilts before and I too was upset. I just laid more batting over the torn pieces and hand stitched it together. The batting tape should work fine too if you can find it. Once quilted it never showed a bit Sorry that you have to deal with this.

Bless her little mouse heart - She is making a nest for her spring babies. I hope you have a cat.

Sorry but that was my first thought. The batting tape or just hand stitching will add enough batting and it will not show.

Quilter68

Joanne's only has it on line but I will try LQS tomorrow. If no luck will try to neatly hand-baste.

I am now somewhat calm and I am going to go find some batting strips. But guess what I did with the cutoffs from the sandwich? I cut them into squares/rectangles along with the cutoff backing so I could use it to practice FMQ and test thread/tension settings HAH. Little Miss Efficiency!

Thanks for your help -

PS - no cat, and our old dog could care less.

Rather than the batting tape, just get some fusible interfacing, cut it into .5" - 1" strips and - tada - batting tape at a fraction of the cost!

Get a cat. Mice are bad news for a house, and they proliferate. If you can't get a cat, at least get a humane mouse trap and check it every day. We have liberated a lot of field mice back into the wild. :)

Oh dear, be sure the rest of your fabric is safely stored away from the mice. I would just unpin that section of the quilt, trim the torn batting so it is not ragged, lay another piece right up against it, and whip stitch the two together. I do that all the time when my batting is too short. For such a small area it would be easier than finding a fusible.