Where to keep a roll of batting?

Sounds as though it is time for you to buy a long-arm machine and frame with that rail specifically used for the roll of batting!!!! I have several large sections of rolled batting that I have bought during sale times and I have no problem with leaving it stored in the corner of the dining room space - don't have far to shift it for cutting a piece off - it leans up against a tall cupboard so that it can't topple on someone or something. Another suggestion: can you improvise a spot for it so that you could roll a section at a time to use as a design board for your finished blocks/borders/etc - then you could just trim around the finished piece and move on to a clean section for your next quilt project. I know that you prefer to design using line-marked material so that you can keep it all squared up but maybe this idea would work? jennellh

Send it on over Polly. I have room to store it here in the walk in closet. You just know somebody was going to offer to do that. : ) I have some batting (leftovers mostly) that I keep in the little barn and it seems no worse for the wear. It is hot here but dry. I probably would be hesitant to store a whole roll of really good stuff for too long in that heat though. Did'nt Leslie used to keep her batting roll hanging on a closet rod that she had hanging in her quilting room? You know you can probably cut it down to 2 or 3 rolls if that would help.

Taria

If you let it sleep in the guestroom, well you know what they say about guests and fish - they start to smell after 3 days...

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Thank you, Jennifer, but nope. My sewing area and kitchen are open to each other and I don't want the batting roll to take on eau d'boiled crawfish. Polly

"Jennifer in Ottawa" Where oh where am I going to put it? I ordered a roll of batting. It

You are getting good, Taria. Really really Good. Our garage has a nice shop room attached. It was used by the builder to restore antiques. ( NOT a passion for me.) It is clean and dry but does not have any sort of heat/cool benefits. At most, I'd guess the roll will do for about 30 crib quilts = less than a year. Polly

"Taria" Send it on over Polly. I have room to store it here in the walk in closet.

LOL. Ginger, you are SO right. We like guests for 3 days here too. No more. I guess I'm sort of thinking I'll need to enlist some help and cut part of it into crib size pieces. Should be able to spread them beneath the quilt on the guest room bed. The batting? Not a choice most of you would make but my venue is much different. I love 50/50. It MQs beautifully, dries quickly, is soft for a 'landing spot' and is quite sturdy. Hurricane Katrina made me keenly aware of the need for all of those. Polly

"Ginger in CA" Where oh where am I going to put it? I ordered a roll of batting. It

I have mine stored on end in a closet in my son's room. It's sort of shoved between clothes he doesn't wear anymore, and costumes we use on rare occasions.

Nancy

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Yep, that was me. We used two metal closet rod supports with a metal rod thru the 'tube' in the center of the batting roll- with the rod ends resting on the supports. It was installed up close to the ceiling to keep it out of the way. One warning- the roll can go insane and unroll on it's own (or when you tug to unroll a length and it keeps on going!) and dump the entire length of batting on the floor. Then I got smart and put some duct tape on the rod so it didn't unroll so easily. It's a real pain to have to re-roll

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:40:06 -0500, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):

Do you have or can you make a space at the back of a closet for it? Just prop it up behind the coats or something?

Maureen

I rather like the idea of putting it to bed in a guest room! My small guest room has enough quilts on the bed to smother any guest, since that is where I store quilts -- an entire stack of them all spread out! Because the cat likes to nap there, I then cover the entire bed with a spare sheet so the room looks "normal". The quilts stay clean and don't face issues with folding. If enough guests arrive so I need to use that room for somebody I roll all of the quilts into a giant roll and drag it into my bedroom and leave it on the far side of my bed and throw the spare sheet over it for the duration. Underneath all those quilts, the quilt-storage bed has clean sheets and a nice quilt ready for a guest. It's rather unorthodox, but works, and I would think a roll of batting tucked into bed would be just fine! The batting would stay clean, not turn into a nasty mess, not get damp, not deteriorate from extreme heat, and be fairly easy to get to when you need to cut a hunk off. A night cap at the top, slippers by the bed, and a book open on the night stand would make it interesting and homey, too.

I love the picture, Mary. We even have somebody's great-grandma's seeing-eye glasses somewhere here. I could put them on the book. Polly

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I agree, that is a mind-picture for sure. Name the roll of batting Gertrude, and as she loses batting, you can say she has gone batty ;)

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Are you sure it really weighs that much? When I recently ordered a roll, the site said that, on some of the batting, weight was listed as 80 lbs, but that was only for the purpose of computing shipping costs. The batting weighs much less than that, but because of the oversized nature of the thing, UPS charges as if it weighed more.

But they are bulky. And when you unwrap them, they expand, big-time! My roll stands up in the corner in a large box that came with something else. In the basement, where my sewing room is.

Iris

That must be huge! How many yards? My 30-yard queen-width didn't weigh that much, not even close! DD1 named it Henry, and it lives in the sauna along with the extra feather beds and the collection of care bear teddies for the women's shelter. Obviously, we don't ever turn the sauna on. But the nice wide shelves are great for stuff like that :-)

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I have a friend who stored her roll of batting in her extra bathroom. She used the shower curtain rod as a spindle and spooled the roll of batting on it. KJ

This has been a fun thread to read....very ingenious group we have here! Donna

Howdy!

Having decided to not get too familiar w/ my roll of batting (familiarity makes it so much harder to say good-bye), I put it in this kind of rolling hamper (these are a bit fatter inside).. ... am a bit suspicious that it sometimes follows me around.

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I am trying to imagine how freakin BIG 75 pounds of batting is. Do the neighbours think you're trying to build a lifesize reproduction of the Hindenburg?

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you could keep it in the belfrey (sp?). dont all quilters have one of those... j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... Where oh where am I going to put it? I ordered a roll of batting. It weighs 75 pounds. A really wonderful price. Do I put a nightgown and cap on it and let it sleep in the guestroom? I've been buying my batting crib size and that is a hefty expense. It really is. Would it be detrimental to its health to store it in an area that gets extremely hot - over 110° I'd guess?What do you do? Polly