asabrinao

Hi, All,
Has anyone batting as stuffing for pillows?

So, I've discovered Quilters Dream batting, which I love. Also, I'm moving in two weeks and don't want to buy a lot of NEW stuff right now. I have a some excess batting from about a year ago--combination of materials from Jo-Anns. It's batting I'll never use and was contemplating giving away to a local quilt guild.

Here's the thing: I'm finishing some pillows as goodbye-presents for folks here and am thinking I might kill two birds with one stone. Has anyone ever used batting for pillow stuffing??

Thanks,
A

bjgallent

I am not sure if it would work or not. You might try stuffing a small square and see how it turns out.

elnan

I have seen batting similar to warm & natural sewn like a pillow cover, then stuffed and the opening stitched. That becomes the pillow form before you make the pretty cover.

soccertxi

I use left over batting to stuff dog bed alot. You need to even it out so its not bumpy...

ManiacQuilter2

A friend of mine stuffed her neck pillows with batting scraps and I felt that they were rock hard. I use batting scraps that are too small to use in a mug rug as stuffing for dog bedding for animal rescue organizations.

Melanie Rudy

I have used batting for stuffing. I kind of layered & rolled it into the shape I needed and tried not to pull it into pieces. It worked well.

bearisgray

What kind of batting are you planning to use?

Tartan

You could pull polyester quilt batt apart for polyester stuffing. Cotton and cotton blend tend to be hard or lumpy. I do use a chunk of batting that I machine sew to the inside corners of my pillows before stuffing with polyester fiberfill or foam chips. The batting sewn to the insure corner seam allowance keeps the corners feeling full.

roguequilter

this is what i have done for years. i make flat panels of batt scraps for front and back, fit into a pillow form i've made from sheet or muslin, then stuff the smaller batt scraps, which i've shredded w a rotary cutter, into area between larger pieces. makes a nice, non lumpy filling for decorater pillows. i save my old used rotary blades for cutting paper as well as triming quilt edges and shredding batt scraps. anything w any poly at all, or paper, will tend to dull a rotary blade, so i don't use new/good blades for batt cutting/shredding, paper etc.

asabrinao

Hi, All,

Thanks for all your help. I was using soft n crafty cotton batting...and, well, I just couldn't quite get it to work. I had trouble evening it out. Traditional stuffing it is!

Best,
A