Originally Posted by Lacelady
It works with Poly batting to, 'cos I've done it. I used to do it all the time with the strips left over after quilting. I couldn't bring myself to throw them all away, so they got sewn together. I don't use a wide zig zag, I have one that looks like a zig zag on the diagram, but uses three or four stitches on each zig or zag. Does that make sense?
Makes perfect sense. My machine calls that a "3 step elastic zig zag" and says it's for overcasting edges and sewing on elastic but it makes sense for joining edges too and I'll have to try it. I have done this with a wide zig zag but Lacelady's method sounds like it would be even less likely to pull apart. I always felt that once it was quilted it wasn't going to move around much and come apart.