Batting too short, already on the rack, HELP!!
08-06-2014, 08:40 PM
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Well, I just whip stitched it together with long stitches so it will lay flat. I worked for about an hour on the quilting and just got to rolling up where I joined the batting. The dog was going BATTY (lol) so we decided to take him for a walk. Tomorrow evening I'm going with a friend to see A Chorus Line, so I'll have more time to sew on Friday.
08-06-2014, 09:27 PM
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I don't know the "proper" solution, but I would whip stitch another piece of batting to it while it is on the frame then quilt over it and call it good. It's not uncommon to stitch two pieces of batting together to use in a quilt so a little hand stitching should fix it just fine.
08-07-2014, 02:28 AM
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Yes, just add a piece at the bottom. You could hand stitch together. I have used pieces zig zagged together and you can't even tell when quilted. There is also a product where you can tape binding together but I have never used it.
08-07-2014, 09:17 AM
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Angela Huffman has a tutorial on splicing batting when the quilt is already on the frame: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgjAYTLeTQ
08-07-2014, 09:20 AM
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When this happened to me-I used a piece of the batting that you iron to both sides of your quilt-they sell it at JoAnn's fabric-it has the sticky stuff on both sides and you could just iron it on to the piece you are using and cut it off when it is long enough-No show and no one will know-Good Luck
08-07-2014, 02:10 PM
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You are quilting on a rack and quilting fairly densely, you don't even need to whip stitch it. Just cut another piece of batting and butt it up against your short piece. If the cut isn't exact you can overlap it a tiny bit. The excess in the overlap won't even be noticeable with your fairly dense swirls.
I have not shorted myself but have done this with two scrap pieces of batting and once I loaded W&N upside down and started getting pokies so I just cut it and flipped it over. You can't even tell!
I have not shorted myself but have done this with two scrap pieces of batting and once I loaded W&N upside down and started getting pokies so I just cut it and flipped it over. You can't even tell!
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