a rescue project
 

a friend was down- sizing some of her things - and included with this stuff was a started quillow - made of fabrics with a high ratio of polyester and 1/4 inch thick polyester batting.

made by the birthing metod - which i do not recommend - because it is such a wrestling match to get the fabrics to lay flat when it is turned right side out.

anyway, i could not get this thing to lay flat. i took it apart to try to figure out why it would not lay flat. turned out that the batting was about 1/2 inch too narrow and about two inches too short when it was relaxed. the short end was not evenly short - it was about two inches short on one side and about three inches sbort on the other.

the pont of this - the batting had enough substance/memory to not want to stretch and therefore the outer fabrics would never - ever- lay flat.

right now the pieces are waiting for me to decide what do do with them.

My first thought was make the fabric smaller to fit the batting. I have a quillow I made that almost every 1/2 inch seam has come apart. It was made with all cotton. Perhaps use the fabric for something else!

my first thought too... and maybe some quilting will make it behave better

I've never made a quillow and am not sure I've even seen one. But I understand the concept - a sort of quilt with a pocket that folds up into itself to make a pillow. Is it even necessary that it lay flat? If the fabrics aren't desirable for quilting, and the quillow isn't finished, and you don't have any strong desire to make a quillow, why not toss the whole thing away and spend your time on something else?

Trim the top and bottom to match, add onto the batting, sandwich it and bind it. I wouldn't 'birth' anything bigger than a potholder. Huh, my 9 pound son was much bigger than a potholder, as were his smaller sisters. LOL

This is what I would do. You might have to add more than one layer if your batt is not as thick.

My boys were 8 lb 10 oz, 9lb 6oz. and 9lb 13 oz... so I know how you felt..

That's the "fun" part of this hobby--you can make it work. Either piece some batting on the original or trim the rest to fit the batting. I'd probably add to the batting since you have the size of the outer 2 layers. Otherwise you are left with more of those scraps that tend to accumulate.