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10-07-2010, 01:55 PM

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Flying_V_Goddess

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Originally Posted by amandasgramma

You asked what size batting and backing. You might contact your quilter before you buy/cut it and ask. I've heard (and use) 4-5" more on ALL sides for the backing and I cut my backing just slightly smaller than the backing.

On her site she says 4" all around for the backing, but it doesn't say anything about the batting. But let's assume that would apply to the batting as well.

I'm not sure if I will go to her. The quilt is going to be huge so there would be the advantage of going to long arm quilter instead of trying to quilt this huge thing on my little Singer. But then again, its going to be huge and bigger quilts cost more to quilt...definatly over $100 just for the quilting. She does good work so it'd be definatly worth it, but I don't think I can afford it (the quilt's expensive enough as it is! lol). Plus, with it being holiday season and people are sending in their quilts to get done before Christmas I might not even be able to get a spot in anyways.

So what I'm wondering is would I still need to add the four inches all around to the batting and back if I'm quilting it myself on my sewing machine?

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