Piecing Batting
#41
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 3,111
I use batting pieces all the time. I spray baste my backing fabric and gently place the batting pieces on it, carefully meeting up the seams. Then I spray baste and place the quilt top. I do FMQ and this works fine for me........ and I have never noticed a problem when laundering!
#43
I've had problems with the tape so just went back to zig zagging, which works fine. Piecing batting works great as long as you sew the pieces together, as with machine zig zag or whipstitch by hand. I received a doll quilt in a swap and she must have just laid two pieces of batting side by side, thinking the quilting would be enough to hold them in place. It wasn't... after the first washing, the batting seperated. Be sure you SEW your batting together, one way or another.
#45
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 15
Take one day. Slap on the good old walking foot. Dig out all your pieces. Zig-zag away and you will be AMAZED at how many good sized batts you get at the end of that day! Just make sure you use a thread that closely matches the color of the batting.
#48
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 14,083
I have been piecing W&N batting for years and I am not aware of any problems with my method of cutting 2 straight edges, butting them together and then using a wide zig zag stitch to join them. Sometimes those pieced battings have enabled me to finish sandwiching a quilt rather than opening up another bag of W&N.
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