Nothing on my design wall although I have a lot of ufos and wips. I'm greening some batts right now to go with the charity quilts and then they'll be ready for the 14th. I was going to be quilting with Judy, but she is long arming her quilt in the free feather tutorials, but mine will be on a DSM and I need to start in the center. So will have to wait until she gets there to continue on that project.So what is greening a batt? It's my way of dealing with left over pieces of batting to use it up instead of throwing it away. I learned this method from Marti Michell in her machine quilting in sections book. Way faster than basting the batting together.
Essentially, you find pieces that together will provide a batt for your top. I overlap them at the side they will be joined and cut a squiggly line through both of them. In the photo you can see them after the cut. I threw away the two pieces resorting from cutting them. Then I cut 1" strips of fusible interfacing. I push the two pieces together and lay the strips on top of the edges and with a Teflon sheet or a piece of fabric I press the joint closed with the interfacing. (you can see a more detailed post here). The batt is now ready to sandwich with the top and back. Have one more to go after this one.
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Great idea! I always zig-zag pieces of leftover batting together for small things.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly the way I do it. I find that for every 5 quilts, I usually have enough to piece a full size batting together. And when you use the light weight interfacing, no one even will ever know :)
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