Valo

Help, any ideas welcomed. I've made a quick quarter quilt and am having trouble piecing the batting and back due to the queen size.

Blue's quilting mama

Welcome from California! Batting can be put together, with the straight edges touching and using a wide zig zag. You can get creative with the back....piece it however it makes it big enough.

Valo

South Dakota sends hi, thanks. I'm just getting back into quilting and seems like I'm having a time figuring it out. I know it will come back to me as I do more.

Lisa_wanna_b_quilter

I've found it easiest to piece batting with the "stretch stitch". It looks like the zig zag but each zig and zag are made up of 3 stitches. I didn't even know what it was until the board told me. This board knows all!

quiltlonger

I just wip stich by hand my batt to make big enough I always remove the salvage from back material before piecing either once right down center or in thirds with seams going horizontal Quilting holds bat once all put together I have long arm and How customers do the back doesn't bother me unless not long enough Hope this helps

nanna-up-north

If I have to piece together batting, the first thing I do is overlap the two pieces that need to be put together and use my rotary cutter to cut a stright line through the overlapped section. That way, it fits perfectly.... no bulges or gaps when you stitch. I throw away the tiny strips that are left over and hand stitch the two together..(big X).. I don't like to move them because they might stretch.

I try to seam the backs so that the center section is a full width of fabric (40-42"). Then I slice the 2nd piece of fabric lengthwise and stitch to both sides of the full width in the center.

I hope this makes sense.

Shelbie

If you don't want to piece a huge back for this quilt, consider using a sheet. I just finished a quick scrap quilt, machine quilted with a sheet for the back. It looks great and was easy to quilt. I even used the backing sheet for the binding!