Batting question
11-23-2010, 03:03 PM
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I use everything! Just slightly overlap and use a walking foot and a very wide long zig zag. You will not find it back once it is quilted. Also the quilting will secure and strenghten where the seam is. Some of my quilts have up to six pices of batting in it all sewn together. Just besure they are the same batting type.
11-23-2010, 04:45 PM
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Depending on what is left, I sometimes use them for place mats, wall hangings and the scraps for coasters... and I do zig zag two pieces together to make a larger piece but do not put that in the middle of whatever you use it on... Will make a crease...
11-23-2010, 04:46 PM
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Butt the straight edges together and use a faggoting stitch (looks like a herringbone pattern) or zig - zag stitch with light coloured thread. I join the batting all of the time. If I have quilted for friends, they often give me the left - over bits for this purpose, and thus I can put them into a charity quilt.
11-23-2010, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by brushandthimble
overlap two pieces and cut with rotary cutter in a smooth large wave and zig zag together by butting the pieces together not overlapping the edges. never shows through.
THEN there is the fusiable joining, either with the new tape you can buy or I have cut thin strips of fusiable web and used that for wall hangings.
THEN there is the fusiable joining, either with the new tape you can buy or I have cut thin strips of fusiable web and used that for wall hangings.
11-23-2010, 06:20 PM
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I use "Heat Press Batting Together" by Jeanne Harwood Designs. It is a 10 yard roll of fusible 1.5 inch wide cloth tape. You lay the edges of batting together. Press the tape over the two edges. It is made in the USA! www.heatpressbattingtogether.com
It costs $8. I paid $8.50 at my local fabric store. IT IS AWESOME STUFF. Worth every penny and more.
Debi
It costs $8. I paid $8.50 at my local fabric store. IT IS AWESOME STUFF. Worth every penny and more.
Debi
11-23-2010, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by lhavelka
I definitely thought about zig zagging it together but I didnt know if it would show a seam in the quilt.
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