OK...so, here is the, "Dwight the Deer," pillow cover that I'm working on.
I wanted to try some techniques that I haven't done before, so, I'm doing a little experimenting. On this one, I tried cutting away the batting to remove the bulk of the quilt for FMQ. This is just a little quilt, so I didn't actually quilt it yet. I just did the cutting of the batting and then put it back together with iron-on interfacing to see how that looks. I know...for some of you, this is old hat, but it was news to me. I folded back the top and the back and made a curvy cut across the width of the batting only. It's curvy because I don't want an obvious seam, or fold later on in the quilt. (At this point, I would normally remove the cut piece of batting, put it aside and start quilting "Dwight." But I skipped this step because I just wanted to see how the cut batting would look when put back together.) Then, I cut 2.5" strips of featherweight, iron-on interfacing and pressed each strip on to an area of the cut to piece the batting halves back together. I did both sides of the batting with the interfacing. The batting feels good, not to bulky, or heavy. I haven't tried to quilt through it yet, but I think it will be fine.
~ Cindy