Originally Posted by QuiltnLady1

I know people who have quilted the batting and the top together closely, but not completely finishing it. They then but the backing on and finish quilting so there is less stitching on the back. They used a batting with a scrim and put the scrim on the outside, drew the quit pattern on the batting scrim and stitched that with the batting side up. I have not done that but the quilts were beautiful.