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Old 09-04-2011, 10:27 PM
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Prism99
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Originally Posted by jean1941
I need to know if you can sew batting together on small pieces for FMQ for charity quilts. I have not done so but have a place that can get scraps of batting and if can use would be great most of it would only be one seam or what is this tape you are talking about? thanks for your answers
Sure you can. The problem in the original post is that it was a king size quilt (*very* large!) on a longarm frame. One seam in a baby quilt will be fine.

You can use a large machine zigzag (long stitch length, wide stitch width). It's best not to do a straight line. If you can, place one piece of batting on top of the other and do a large "S" shaped cut through both pieces with your rotary cutter. Discard the remnants. The two pieces will fit together exactly and will not have a telltale crease later.
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