Originally Posted by
copycat
I am trying the iron on tape now. I have the batting edges meet and iron the tape. Next when I move the batt around, I can see a tiny sliver of a gap where the batting edges pull apart. Do you iron the tape to just one side of the batting?
Thank you!
I would just iron it to one side. When you baste, don't stretch it, so that the edges stay together. Ultimately, if there's a millimeter of space there it probably won't matter once you quilt it, as long as the space isn't along a fold line in the finished quilt (folding right along there would make it spread more).
With pieced batting, I always try to quilt more heavily than I would with an unpieced one, to keep the joins from opening up.