Originally Posted by Carol's Quilts
I always cut my batting bigger than the quilt top, and cut my backing bigger than the batting. Then I fold up (twice) the excess backing over the batting and onto the quilt edges and hand-baste with long running stitches to enclose the whole quilt so I get no batting lint or thread ravels from the edges of the fabrics. Then I can quilt from the center out without a problem and only open up the basted edges to quilt when I get that far.
I don't do machine quilting except for SID, so I don't know if this procedure would work for those of you who do, but it works for me. Just a thought which might be useful to some of you.
I don't know how this reply got on this topic/post. I certainly don't recall posting it here. How does that happen - I've noticed it before on other people's replies occasionally. I was replying to another post (on page 2 of this thread), but now I can't remember which one it was and I can't find it. I know whoever posted it was complaining that her quilt batting was leaving lint all over her quilt as she was maneuvering it to work on it and was wondering if anyone else has the same problem. Does anyone know which post it was? It was posted on the same day as my reply above (I think), or close to it. Thanks.
Carol