Black batting - Important?
#21
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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I haven't used black batting recently but have used it with Amish style quilts with good luck. I have made a couple of quilts recently with darker backgrounds (navy, forest green, black) and wish I had used black batting. I quilt using my domestic machine and usually the batting hangs over the edges until I trim it up when I'm done. The lighter batting rubs off on the darker fabric and it takes some work with a lint roller to get the fuzzies off.
#25
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
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I just made a quilt with a large area of black background in which my longarmer did some beautiful quilting with multicolored thread. The judge said she noticed some bearding and it would have been better with a black batt.
She gave the quilt 4th place, which doesn't get a ribbon.
She gave the quilt 4th place, which doesn't get a ribbon.
#26
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Live Oak, Texas
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Way back when, the cotton came right from the fields and was never black and I have never seen old quilts with a problem with the white cotton used for the batting. I have never used black with my dark quilts and you would never know by looking at them what color the batting is.
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