What to do with leftover batting?

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11-28-2010, 07:13 AM

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LindaR

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I cut them up and use as floor dusters

11-28-2010, 07:17 AM

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Jeanniejo

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I use the pieces that are large enough for the pads on my swiffer sweeper. The store bought pads are expensive, left over batting is already paid for !! Anything smaller than that I toss.

11-28-2010, 07:30 AM

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PiecesinMn

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Can you make an inner pillow (just out of muslin or whatever) to put the batting in and stuff that in the pillow. When you wash, jut wash the outside and restuff the pillow with the pillow. Hope that made sense.

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I recently cut a bunch of mine into 6 inch squares to use in a flannel raggedy quilt...some day!

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That's what I do with mine, or I use my batting remnants for QAYG projects. It's hard to let anything go to waste when you know it could be used for something eventually!

I don't intend to throw it away, but eventually is here and I can't get into my closet without crawling through stacks of batting. The idea of cutting them up for pillows is great, as I make plenty of them and have been buying pillowforms. The problem is what do you put them in because when you want to wash the outside they'll all pop out. Not good!

11-28-2010, 07:32 AM

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If I have at strip at least 12 inches wide and the WOF(batting) I save them and when I get about 7 or 8 piecec I sew them together and I hve batting for a twin size. Save more and you can make it bigger. Little scraps I make potholders or casters with. I usually will make some crumb blocks to do this.

May I ask, what are "crumb blocks"?

Crumbs are the little pieces left after you cut your pieces for a block.. I only keep "crumbs that are t least 2 in. square. I really like bigger pieces, but you can use any size scrap . Some quilters use even smaller pieces! There are several tutes on crumb piecing. Check on this message board or Google crumb blocks or crumb quilts.

11-28-2010, 07:37 AM

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katiebear1

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Oops! don't know how that happened.

11-28-2010, 08:23 AM

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PATTIESPEARL

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at my church, the quilters stitch them together to mak large pieces again for more charity quilts.

11-28-2010, 08:55 AM

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Well, I never thought of using the scraps to dust with. My hardwood floors will appreciate the soft touch. I've wondered about zig zagging them together. Thanks for all the suggestions.

11-28-2010, 10:00 AM

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May I ask, what are "crumb blocks"?

HA! Thats ok...! Thank you for the info. I never heard of crumb blocks. Boy I hate tossing anything away. I have a tote almost full of "crumbs"...I didn't know what I was going to do with them but now I do! Thanks munchly! :thumbup: