Batting scraps
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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
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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
Sarah
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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.
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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!
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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
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