Bobbin along

Help! I'm making a little (50" x 50ish) quilt for my 7yr old DGS using a big Batman panel with a wide border. I plan to just mainly outline the huge picture of Batman with quilting--sounds simple enough--and I want it to be really fluffy...and I happened upon a hugly discounted chunk of extra high loft batting, and, me, being no dumb, know that using high loft can be a real challange. I'm wondering if any of you have any 'tricks' you use to conquer quilting the high loft stuff! Thanks! :shock:

sueisallaboutquilts

Have you thought about tying it???

gollytwo

I'd tie it or hand-quilt one stitch at a time

amma

Use a longer stitch, go slow, use twice as many pins as normal :D:D:D

Prism99

Heavily starch the backing and top to reduce the chance of puckering. Spray baste. Use longer machine stitch and go slowly.

feline fanatic

Sorry, I am no help I have only tied hi-loft.

DawnMarie

I don't like high loft batting for machine quilting at all!
I'd tie it if I were you.

okiepastor

I would tie, too--you can always do the invisible tie if you do not want them to show. The other option is to machine tack instead of quilting.
I have hand quilted high loft, one stitch at a time, but do NOT look at the back on the one I did to give to DD!Very challenging to do, and will not try it again!

Bobbin along

Thanks, Everyone, for you help--it sounds like I may have bitten off more that I can chew!!

okiepastor

Not really--invisible ties are quite neat and make a "fluffy" quilt!