Originally Posted by
rosalynd
SheriR is there any particular reason why it's hard to make a quilt without batting? I have enough of the white to do another layer, would that work?
I'm pretty sure she meant it was mentally difficult, not physically hard to quilt a quilt without batting.
Afterall, we're trained up to think of a quilt as a top, batting and a backing. Sometimes it's hard to veer away from what's been drilled into our heads from the start. But as quilters, it's fun to think outside the box to achieve a look or a feel in our quilts.
I know what SheriR means too. My sister loves a very lightweight quilt and I have made her several over the years with the thinnest batting I can find, but I know in my heart that I need to make her one without batting. But somehow I've never been able to make myself do it!
I keep getting stuck on the old "it's not really a quilt unless it has all three layers". But I'm going to break out of that rut and make her next quilt without batting.