bev195000

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..

purplemem

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

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nativetexan

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.

fabric whisperer

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 :)

MaryKatherine

Butt the edges of pieces and loosely anchor them together. I do it all the time. Once its quilted it will never be detectable.
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quilt3311

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

MS quilter

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.

jme

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

Butterflyblue

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

Butterflyblue

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.