Sewing batting strips

I have never done this myself, but seen it described:

Place the batting strips _next to_ eachother (no overlap). Then stitch then together with a wide and longish zigzag (by machine) or what I would call a hex stitch by hand (but I'm not sure that is really the name).

Hanne in London

I overlap the edges I want to join and cut through the two layers in a slightly wavy line. I take away the edges and am left with two pieces that butt together nicely. I mark in a few places to help match them together correctly when stitching. (I use a washable Crayola marker to mark.) Then I set my machine to the largest possible zigzag stitch and use my blind hem foot, which has a little knife-like guide on it. I move that guide to about even with the needle (middle of the zigzag) and stitch with one piece of batting on either side of the guide. There is a picture of the foot I use at . Some machines also have an edge joining foot that could be used the same way.

Julia > Is there a way to put batting strips together without having a small bulky

I make sure that the edges of the pieces I'm sewing together are straight, and butt them together and stitch over with a ??running-zigzag?? stitch. I don't know which stitches you have on your machine, but mine (Viking) has a stitch that is a zig-zag made up of smaller stitches - takes 4 stitches to get from one side of the zigzag to the other.... wish I could draw a better picture. \ \ \ \_ / / / /

I just make sure that the line between the 2 pieces is in the center of the zigzag - and that stitches go into both pieces. It holds them together and if you quilt the final design they should not come apart. No bulk like you got when you seamed them.

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I just sit them side by side, butted up "cheek to jowl", get out my needle and thread, and "baste" them, going from one piece to the other with rather large stitches -- 1" to 2" is fine. There is no overlap so there is no fat part, and with them butted side by side, there is no gap. I tend to use scraps of batting for smaller items like pillow covers, small bags, etc., and it works very well.

This is what I do too. As long as you do more than "minimal" quilting and the two pieces of batting are of the same type and thickness, no will ever know that you pieced the batting unless you tell them.

-- Jo in Scotland

I did something really bone-headed and whacked a foot off the batting that I realized I needed. I just butted the two pieces next to each other (not lapped at all)...and kind of whip-stitched them together loosely. Once it was quilted, you couldn't even tell.

Sherry

I do the same as you, Julia, except that I use the biggest version of a serpentine stitch I can make on my machine. The serpentine stitch is sort of like a curvy zigzag.

Sherry,

I make sure I have two straight edges and I zigzag them together on my sewing machine using a 5mm zigzag stitch. There is no bulky overlapping and no gaps. Works like a dream. I never throw away my batting strips.

JMHO,

Marsha in nw, OH

I too have successfully joined batting together by using my zigzag stitch - making sure the edges butt together therefore no bulky seams.

No-one will ever know.

Di

I do this also -- having that wavy line helps the edges meet up nicely and keeps a dead straight line from showing on the quilt. I do not sew the pieces together by machine but rather by hand. I use very large stitches in what looks like a figure eight and is the way most of us put laces through our shoes. I anchor the thread at one end and come from the bottom up through to the top then I put the threaded needle through the other side of the batting from bottom to top again. It works easiest if you do it this way -- from the bottom or underside up through to the top. this allows you to pull the two sides together without while greatly reducing the possibility that you might end up getting the edges overlapped. It does take a bit longer but you don't need to pin anything. Once the quilt is quilted, the pieces are held firmly in place and you don't have to worry if you sewed the pieces of batting together good enough. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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I just butt them up right next to each other and run them through the machine with a 3-stitch zigzag. If you are a lunatic perfectionist, of course, you will separate the edges into 2 layers, trim the top layer from one side, bottom layer from the other, to about an inch wide, then overlap the half-thicknesses and gently baste by hand. Matching your thread to the fiber type of the batting of course. (snort!) Roberta in D

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