I went back to the store and at the other battings from the shelf I took mine from because I had thrown the package away. Being a newbie I didn't learn battings were all different until I had finished putting the binding on this one and then looked for other people that shared my interests on line. Yes, Iv' learned this all backwards the hard way. The other packages on that shelf said quilt 2 to 4 inches. I'm still in the practicing stage of stippling and not very confident about it. Someone else had the idea of doing some straight line stitching in the gaps. If I did this about 1 inch to 1 1/2 inch inside the blocks on all sides how would that do?