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Here's another thing you can do with excess batting. Make fabric hanger covers. Use a couple layers of batting. You can hang up things like sweaters and pants without getting creases in them.
Technically you should fold sweaters and lay them flat, but I like to hang them. Frugal Quilter |
At one group I belong to we use a large wip stitch by hand to put pieces together and you never can see it --naturally use a thread color to match. Takes a short time and I find it better
than machine stitching but u will get many ideas here. We just butt them together/
Originally Posted by lhavelka
So I know that I am probably not the only one who has this problem. I buy queen size batting warm and natural and end up with excess. The quilt I am working on now is 66x80. The queen is 90x102. So after I cut out what I need, is there a way to put two pieces of batting together so that I dont waste all this batting? Do I sew it together or I thought of taking a piecing of fusing and ironing to together?
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Originally Posted by erstan947
I butt the two edges together and zigzag to join
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I butt the two edges together and do a , by hand, zig-zag. Looking at the joint going from top to bottom, I take a horizontal stitch on the left, about an inch in, going from rigight to left, then go to the right piece and take a horizontal stitch from right to left, repeat. I think it is called a herring bone stitch. It holds the two pieces together, but they do not overlap.
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