cindyb

My friend has a long arm business. She had two garbage bag of scraps, long but ranging from 3" to 8" wide. I took them, of course not knowing what to do with them. I know I can use them as stuffing for pillows, stuffed toys and things like that. But, any other suggestions?

dunster

You can piece them together (whip stitch by hand, zigzag with the machine, or use fusible tape) to make bigger pieces and then use just like any other batting. I do this with larger pieces, but not with the narrow ones. But it can be done.

tallchick

Mug rugs
Placemats
Table runners
Kennel mats for your local humane society for their cats and dogs, cats really like them.

I don’t make smaller projects so I just bag them up and post in the free section of Craigslist, it’s usually snagged up in a few days.

Tartan

Batting strips are my favourite method for doing placemats. I think I posted about them on QB? You stitch and flip fabric scraps down batting strips. You then trim them straight and piece the strips together with I inch sashing. After you have the strips and sashing all pieced together to the placemat size you want, you put a back on and top stitch down the sashing strips (because the scraps on the batting are already stitched) and bind the placemat.
p.s. The tutorial on QB is under the title -Scrap Buster and I posted it for hot pads but I have used the same method, only bigger for placemats.

RedGarnet222

Maybe use them in the rag rugs that is in style again? I am pretty sure you could braid the fabric covered batting strips to make place mats and rugs too.

quiltsRfun

I’ve heard some use them on their Swiffer.

osewme

They would be great for practice work like free motion quilting, etc.

Moira in N.E. England

Earlier this month I posted this link to Kaye Wood’s 6 hour quilt. It uses 6 inch strips of fabric and batting or wadding -

https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1/kaye-wood%92s-6-hour-quilt-t306121.html

I made a small one just to see how it worked out. If you watch the video you will see Kaye uses a serger. I did too but I was not keen on the completed seams. Each seam has 2 layers of wadding and 6 layers of fabric and although they are compressed by the overlock stitch to me the seams are stiff.
It is a quick way to make multiple charity quilts though - as Kaye suggests.

Your strips of batting would be ideal for a similar style quilt, perhaps using ‘quilt-as-you-go’.

SillySusan

Wow! What a wonderful gift you received!!

You can have bunches of uses for these! You can piece them together for quilts; you can use them in QAYG projects; you can use them in small wall hangings; ... place mats... table runners... hot pads ... Wait, wait, I will think of dozens more!

Jingle

You could also use them to make QAYG quilt blocks.