Piecing batting
#1
I know some of you sew your batting pieces together. Be aware that it CAN be a problem for your longarmer (lAer). I had a customer send me a king size quilt with batting --- insisted he "had the batting" --- well, he pieced it. By the time I worked my way thru the king size quilt -- here's what it looked like. I had to cut the stitching off the batting, drag my ironing board out to the shop and iron on the tape that binds batting together. Not an easy task in a room that's barely deep enough for my quilting machine! I had laid it out on the table before rolling it up on the bars --- but the warp didn't show until toward the end of the quilt!!!!
#2
I need to know if you can sew batting together on small pieces for FMQ for charity quilts. I have not done so but have a place that can get scraps of batting and if can use would be great most of it would only be one seam or what is this tape you are talking about? thanks for your answers
#3
What a mess! I have to piece my batting fairly often because I buy Q-size width in a roll, but many of my quilts are larger. I wish JoAnn's sold the K-size in a roll, but they don't. I piece it carefully, and lately I've been fusing the pieces together rather than sewing. So far no problems, so I'm assuming your customer didn't have the batting pieces flat when he sewed them together.
#5
Originally Posted by Jennoh2
Quilt batting tape (seam tape) IT IS WONDERFUL. Can usually get betwee $5-7 at most quilt stores, JoAnne, Hancocks, etc. About 16 yards in a lot.
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Originally Posted by jean1941
I need to know if you can sew batting together on small pieces for FMQ for charity quilts. I have not done so but have a place that can get scraps of batting and if can use would be great most of it would only be one seam or what is this tape you are talking about? thanks for your answers
You can use a large machine zigzag (long stitch length, wide stitch width). It's best not to do a straight line. If you can, place one piece of batting on top of the other and do a large "S" shaped cut through both pieces with your rotary cutter. Discard the remnants. The two pieces will fit together exactly and will not have a telltale crease later.
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