I have a 45 x45 wall hanging I am completing and do not want to go into town to purchase batting when I have pieces at home. How do you make it one piece? Or do you leave it alone till you sandwich it?

Set your machine on the biggest zig zag stitch you have and put them together that way.

Or buy the "batting tape" from Nancy's Notions/JoAnn's, etc. and tape them together.

i love the batting joining tape

You can put it together by using the batting tape, use your widest zig zag stitch on your machine or you can whip stitch it by hand.

butt 2 pieces together (you might have to trim them to get a straight edge) and zigzag. I don't use the widest zigzag, though because it's really wide on my machine.

I whip stitch but just ordered the tape from Eleanor Burns' site. It was on sale. Can't wait to try it.

What's whip stitch?
David

A whip stitch is an overcast stitch - in on one side of the seam, out on the other, pull through.

I don't sew or use the joining tape when I spray baste or when I'm using fusible batt. If you get the pieces butted well without any overlaps, then spray, the fabric you put over it will hold the joins together.

I have done all three I prefer to hand sew mine not to fond of the tape.

On my quilt as you go blocks we learned to join batting by hand using small x down seam.

I have never heard of the tape you can purchase to join batting together,,,where do i purchase it? i am guessing it will not be available in the UK as i have never heard of it and never seen it in the odd quilt shops i come across every now and them..

It's new and sells for $7.99 (US). Connecting Threads has it, Nancy's Notions, QuiltinaDay, JHittle...

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yep, zig zag by machine or hand stitch together. I won some of that tape that fuses on but it doesn't last. if you use it, be sure to quilt in that area. otherwise i would still stitch it somehow.

I just bargello'd my front windows (cold weather, called for window quilts!) and my middle layer of batt was to short... did a V stitch to join them and it worked great... used up some little strips, and got that middle layer of batt for insulation in my windows :)

Butt the edges of pieces and loosely anchor them together. I do it all the time. Once its quilted it will never be detectable.
mk

The batting tape works well, or just lay two pieces together and zig zag across the two.

Iron-on hem tape (made to repair hems that have come out)is a lot cheaper than the stuff Quilt sites sell. It's basically s small strip of iron-on stabelizer.

I whip stitch it together too, works great and saves me a ton of money!

Yes, I read somwhere that you could use iron-on hem tape, but I've never tried it myself.

When I piece batting, I follow a tip I read somewhere and lay the two pieces slightly overlapping on my cutting mat. Then I use the rotary cutter to make a serpentine line cut through both layers. Then I but the two matching serpentine edges together and zig-zag. Supposedly, this helps the quilt not to develop odd creases and folds in it later due to the pieced batting, and allows more of the seam to be caught under the quilting, strengthening it.

It is the best! Lay your pieces together and cut them w your ruler and rotary cutter so they join evenly. I will never zig zag again after using the batting tape.

I butt the edges together and zig zag with a walking foot.

I've machine-pieced batting with a zig-zag stitch, and the end result in the quilt works really well. One problem I did have once was that apparently my batting had a grain, or something. When I pieced it together, one piece was curved when it had been straight. I figured the two pieces must have had "grains" in perpendicular directions. Hand piecing could solve the problem, but I just grabbed a different piece.

Batting does have a stretch side verus a more stable side. Read this is Harriet H? book on machine quilting. I zig zag my batting together and have never had a problem. Never tried the tape. Would iron on interfacing work????

I use the faggoting stitch on my machine, and zig zag would work OK too.Butt the fabric straight sides together and sew down the middle of the join. It works very well - I never waste the batting and it is not noticeable once quilted. As a matter of fact, a lot of people save their left over batting and give it to me to use!

i just pieced some pieces of batting together using the 'heat press batting together' tape by jeanne harwood designs, and it was fabulous......worked like a charm, very easy and no bump...you could not tell at all after the quilting was done....very good stuff.....gina

I use light weight, iron on, fusible narrow strips,. Works great, and holds it just fine, until I finish quilting. I would not try it on polyester batting.

Me too! It is super stuff.

Go to JoAnn's and buy one yard of knit fusible interfacing, get the lightest weight. Cut 1 1/4" strips from it. Butt up your batting and then press the strips to the batting. The interfacing is cheaper than the precut strips. I do this all the time.

I use iron-on fusible" Band-aids." Strips cut the size of band-aids and iron them to fuse your batting back together.Very cheap and very useful.

i use the foot that has a center guide. might be in the ditch foot and a zig zag. works great. Havn't used the tape as it appears to be an added expense when the zig gag works finel.

If you sew two butted pieces together with big stitches,
it you will not have trouble in the future, with the batting curling up or shifting, especially in the washer or dryer!

I use largest zigzag...it works great...

Butt them and zig zag them together.iI use all of my small pieces this way.R.

Never knew that tape existed. Thanks. I always just sewed the pieces together.

I zig zag down them together

I use this all the time. I hate wasting the pieces. they stay together great once it is put together.

I slightly over-lap the pieces, then take your rotary cutter and ruler and make a straight cut thru both over-lapped pieces and you'll get them both perfectly straight to butt up against each other-I then just machine zig-zag them together with a fairly wide and not too close together stitch or it will pucker. Never had a problem doing it this way.

Over lap the two pieces about 2". Cut a wavy line down the center of the overlap from top to bottom. Remove the smaller sections of both overlaps and butt the two larger sections together. That way when you sew them together, the joining seam will not form a straight line and will be less noticibeable.

Just cut edges even and whip stitch together. Do this all the time when piece is not large enough and I have pieces I can sew together.