minkee question

Well, Karen, golly! You don't say if you're making an appliqué of a 2" round teddy bear face or a crib size quilt. Anyhow - for the quilt, I'd use masking tape *outside* of the stitching line to keep it from stretching as I stitched. For a wee appliqué I guess I'd mash (not press/iron) its wrong side to something stabilizing and wash-away like Floriana Wet N Gone. Polly

Oh. oopsÉ..lol I want to use this minkee as the backing for a baby quilt.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Polly has it right with the masking tape and I'd add using a walking foot so it feeds thru the machine without stretching the Minkee. (Wish I'd thought of masking tape when I sewed with Minkee.) And it's worth the extra effort- I used it to back a snuggle quilt for mom when she had chemo. It was yummy!

Leslie & The Furbabies > Okay. Easy. =C2=A0Just pat a strip of cheap masking tape down the edges t= hat

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Minkee is so soothing to teething babies, balding chemos and skinny old biddys whose Yorkies want to 'go' in freezing sleet at 4 am. I found a terribly pricey minkee bathrobe slightly damaged at a fire sale. It improves even my disposition. Minkee doesn't really 'shed' but the cutting of it does cause a heap of snips to clean up. I've found that a balled up wad of minkee scraps will grab the loose fur clean and quick. Polly

Leslie & The Furbabies > Okay. Easy. Just pat a strip of cheap masking tape down the edges that

What I am looking for is a way to make the minkee lay still while I layer the batting and the quilt top over it, and thread-baste the layers together before quilting.

Karen, Queen of Squishies