how much batting to buy and wider fabric

like others, I got some JoAnns coupons via email this week, so I'm going to use them!

I plan to buy some batting, now, it makes sense to buy more than what I need, but I don't know how much to buy, I mean, I get coupons frequently enough, or it goes on offer, so I don't need a years supply, I really just need an amount that isn't too difficult to lug home from the store (I walk).

I also want some wider fabric for a backing, I figure in a place like JoAnns, this should be easy, just wonder to another part of the store and look for cotton, I don't need particuarly wide, 54", I think. Is there anything else I should be looking for in making this purchase?

Anne

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Anne Rogers
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I usually buy 10 yards of batting - it may be a little bulky to lug home, but it's not heavy. As far as backing fabric goes, I'm not sure that Joann's carries wide cotton that is suitable for backing. I have seen it at the Super Stores, but not at my regular store. I've never actually used the wide backing for my quilts - no reason not to, I just seem to have fabric on hand that is suitable for backing my quilts.

Have fun shopping!

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Pauline

Joann's near me carries wide backing that is tone on tone in widths of 90" and 108". They probably carry something in the 70"-ish range but I never buy it. Most of my quilts are between 70" & 80" in length so I usually buy the 90" stuff. If I'm using muslin -- which I often do -- then that's almost open stock in any size made! When I buy batting or generic backing, I usually buy 10 yds. Fabric would be easy enough to schlepp home but, as you say, the batting would be a pain. A suggestion for having to carry home a whole big load of batting would be to use a luggage carrier. I keep one of those fold up ones in the trunk of my car, along with an average size bungee cord, for when I have to drag several boxes in to be mailed. I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing with a big bag of fabric. Have the stuff double bagged so that there are is no opening for fabric or batting to peek out of, stack the bag(s) on the base of the luggage "schlepper", strap it down with the bungee cord and away you go :-)! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Tia Mary

I ended up getting 3 yards of batting, it was just right for carrying home, it was also just right pricewise, along with the other things I'd bought and the coupons I'd used, it added up to just over 35 dollars, which meant I could use another coupon to get a further 5 dollars off! It really is mega savings week and it didn't mean I bought anything I wouldn't have done at another time, other than perhaps fabric markers, I may have just bought one had I been paying full price, but they had 6 for 9.99 which I used with my

40% off voucher, this means I can now put labels on my quilts!

It is a superstore, but I didn't find wide fabric, maybe I didn't look hard enough, I didn't have much time. As I needed 3 yards, I was restricting myself to 2.99 bolts and the easyist way to do that is to just head for the solids, they are better quality than the odd cheap one you find amongst the rest. But I couldn't find anywhere near the right shade of blue and I didn't want to start looking for a different colour, in the end, I found something the same hue, but darker, which really won't matter at all, though might require some thought when it comes to choosing threads for quilting.

Anne

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Anne Rogers

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Anne Rogers

are we talking the kind for a baby or the kind the preschooler sits in? if it's for the pre-schooler you can for transportation purposes I would just bung said bags on the seat of the pushchair and let your preschooler have a walk - if you can cope with walking slowly and stopping for every bug/flower etc that is both my kids learnt to walk home from town at an early age and loved it and if you keep up the oh what's that over there thing going they can easily walk for 45 mins or more and as an added bonus they will want a nap when they get home too also possible: take a bungee cord and strap the bags to the pushchair *or* some ducttape (sp?) and tape it to the handles if it's no the kind you can hang stuff on.

if you have to one can carry a weeks worth of shopping on a buggy (stroller) nappies and toilet paper included! till Jan of this year all I had was my feet, a buggy and a bike to do everything with (no car) so I learnt how to schlep almost anything home from the shops

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Jessamy

I find that the wide backing fabrics at Joann's shrink a LOT. I would definitely prewash first. I don't feel the quality is worth the price, but YMMV. I am more comfortable using Kona cottons and piecing my backings. I just snip the selvages and stitch the pieces together. Easy peasy.

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Valerie in FL

nope, the older is almost 4, we decided not to bring the tandem pushchair with us when we moved, we've rarely regretted it. Our single pushchair is one that has a horizontal handle, which I find fabulous as I can push it one handed and have a hand free for the older one, or for opening doors and the like, but it's not very favourable for hanging things from. Also the route is a moderate hill, on the way to the shops, it's up, on the way back it's down, so extra weight is potentially dangerous.

Anne

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Anne Rogers

I think we're having a language question here :-). By pushchair do you mean what we call a stroller -- the wheeled "chair" you put a baby or small child in? Just curious as I haven't seen that particular term used before :-). Regardless, trying to use one of the luggage cart thingies would be impossible if you were also pushing a stroller -- even without the preschooler. As for finding the wider backing, in my Joann's it's on the shelves with the muslin and you *do* have to look for it. Someone else mentioned that it shrinks and I also find that to be true. It's worth it *IF* you have a coupon. If I had to pay full price, I wouldn't buy it because I can get better quality wide fabric for just a few dollars more money per yard from an online source. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Tia Mary

yes, that's right a stroller, I tend to find that because of widespread American film, TV, internet etc. non American, English speakers understand almost all "American" words, but the same is not true the other way round.

Anne

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Anne Rogers

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