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Do you have loads of batting pieces?
After you've been quilting a while, you usually end up with some odd shaped scraps of batting, that aren't really big enough to do anything with. What you can do, if you want to use things up, is you can piece the batting.
One little note from Bill and I: there is a right side and a wrong side to your batting! One side will have pimples - raised bumps - and the other side won't - those are dimples. Try to piece them all the same. As in all the dimples on one side. This helps to keep the batting from tufting through.
The important thing to remember, when you're piece batting, is you don't want to overlap it, or you don't make a seam. You want to butt them together. You don't want any extra lumps, or bulges. You don't want to layer them. Just nice, and tightly together. Set your machine to a zigzag stitch. Put the presser foot down, and just make sure your stitches are falling on either side of your seam line. So, there you have a nice piece of seamed batting.
Now the easy way....as in my way:
There's another way you can piece batting, that doesn't involved the sewing machine. There's a wonderful new product, Heat Press Batting, and, all you do is, put your two pieces of batting together, once again, but it together. Cut a piece of the tape, the size that you need for your batting, and just press. So, yes, there is a way you can re-use your batting scraps. Heat activated tape, or zigzag sewing on the machine. Either way, it's a great way to reuse your scraps.
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