Sarah in Brooklyn

I just found myself with a bunch of large batting scraps - this is Warm and White batting. I think I read somewhere that if I sew the pieces together I can use them as a larger piece, but maybe there was ironing involved to seal the seam? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Sarah

GrannieAnnie

I'd simply whip stitch the pieces together. The quilting you do later will secure the batting enough.

Maggiemay

I piece batting together all f the time. I butt it up against each other & zig zag it on the machine. There is an iron on tape you can use to fuse it together but I've never tried it.

Grandma Peg

I use warm and natural and sew them together. If they are wrinkled, then I iron them. Works good with a big zig zag stitch.

DogHouseMom

I zig-zag mine together ... but also consider saving some pieces in like 9" or 12" squares to practice FMQ on. I'm constantly using up my batting trim that way.

jcrow

They make fusible iron on tape so you don't have to sew it together. I've done that way only. It works very well. I've never sewed it together, so I don't know how easy that is. The fusing is pretty darn easy.

Bataplai

I generally use a zig zag stitch, but tonight tried a joining stitch and both work great!

dunster

I started out sewing batting together by hand with a whip stitch. (I also overlapped the pieces first and cut them with a wavy line, as instructed in the books.) That was tedious. Then I tried fusing the pieces. That worked okay, but I don't always have fusible available, and it was a pain having to lay the batting out on the ironing board. Now I just sew them together with a zigzag stitch on the sewing machine, and that is easiest and quickest for me. After the quilting is done I can't tell how many pieces of batting are inside, or where they might be joined together. For a comfort quilt I recently used up most of my batting scraps, even some of the smaller pieces. No more wasting batting for me!

Lori S

I save batting scraps and sew a very wide zig zag stitch to joined the butted edges together. It amazing how fast those scraps can add up .

Charming

Yes I just did that today and nothing beats a zigzag stitch to join the pieces together. I bought once two rolls of heat press batting together roll where you butt the two pcs of batting then heat press the roll to join them but I hate it. I feel the batting gets so think and don't like the feel of it. IMHO