Useing fabric instead of batting for a quilt?
#12
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I use flannel as batting a lot for smaller lap or throw quilts. I don't live in the cold north, so we don't need the heavier thicker quilts. On baby quilts, if I am using flannel as a backing, I like to use a piece of muslin for the batting just to pad the seam areas. While I do not usually prewash fabrics, whenever I am using flannel - wash everything.
Welcome to the world of quilting. Reminder - it is your quilt - make it however you want, the quilt police will not be coming by!!!!
Welcome to the world of quilting. Reminder - it is your quilt - make it however you want, the quilt police will not be coming by!!!!
#13
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I have made a quilt with out any batting/fabric and found it wrinkle very easily and does not have any body. I also used flannel as batting and found that the quilt was just as heavy as using batting and flannel can be way more expensive that batting. IMHO
#14
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my only concern about not using batting is the wear. I often wonder if the seams from the the quilt top would wear through the back quicker without batting. I have see some older quilts that were worn through and needed a new back and I wondered if the batting would have prevented some of that wear. (but I don't know that - just my brain wondering)
#16
I grew up in California and my mother always used old worn sheets instead of batting. A few years ago my son asked me to make him a new quilt as the one from my mother had worn so badly. He loved the weight and so I used 2 sheets inside his quilt. It was perfect for him and he uses it every day. When I was sewing his old quilt back together as best I could, I saw that she had used one old sheet and several muslin feed bags inside his quilt. She stitched the feed bags together to make a piece the size of the sheet.
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05-05-2010 05:50 PM