How to join
2 Pieces Of Quilt Batting
How To Join Batting Pieces: Learn to Join All Types of Quilt Batting and Use Up Your Batting Scraps
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hi welcome to quilty Erika welcome back
thanks Erika vana what what do you think
is your most often made quilt size baby
quilt lap quilt no I started making lap
or couch cuddle size but now I have to
lots of big votes to make it comes in
waves right it does like how many babies
but we always love to make them yes well
today we're going to talk about joining
batted pieces because when we make all
these little projects and these little
baby quilts you know batting comes in
all kinds of sizes as we know and all
kinds of different weights and we're
going to talk a little bit more about
batting weights but you know there's
baby quilt size bats right all those
bats and um and you know but you still
usually have scraps right you know yes
all baby quilts are not the same size
that's right right so what do you do
with all those scraps well mine are all
wadded up exactly but this is something
you have in your home right yeah and you
said sometimes they're in plastic bags
yes
yeah stuffed in yep exactly so when we
pull the batting out of our closet or
wherever we have it you know maybe where
this organized to put these little
scraps together but uh excuse me but
there's but there's a problem here
because we don't know what this pile is
right right there might be different
kinds of batting right exactly different
weights different fibers we have bamboo
bang we have poly cotton batting you
know it's different so my first tip
today is to label it you know when you
have your batting package take a second
and cut out the little label that is so
fabulous it's good it's a good I think
we actually got this from a love of
quilting viewer who sent this tip in and
um and if the if like I noticed when I
cut this label out that the the
manufacturer's name wasn't on this
particular part of the label now say
I better put it down there so when I go
shopping I can get the right
the right kind just in case I needed to
know so you pin that all together in all
your little bits and then you know
fabulous I know it's pretty good I want
you to talk about hand hands so sewing
bits to get sure what do you know about
this well um before you can hand sew or
even machine so the first thing you need
to make sure it has two edges that
you're going to be putting together are
relatively straight because if you're
like me and you've been cutting your
batting with scissors because you're so
excited that you just got your quilt
base it together and you want to get
that extra off you Shh the UM it just
might not be straight exactly so you
yeah you rotary cut it right I rotary
cut it and I think you said sometimes
you press your batting do you get it
flat and sometimes I will stick it in a
hot dryer for a few minutes to make it
relax muffin and lay it flat it's great
yeah um yeah but that's a really I've
never done that before but I will so
yeah rotary cutting up those edges is
smart yes and then no steam right on
your iron you want a dry iron and just
really carefully do that right if you've
got a super if you've got like a
polyfill bedding don't know iron on that
like I'm very careful what you do that
would be bad that would be bad I'm good
huh you have tears right right so hand
sewing okay once you but the edges
together you can take a needle and
thread and just take a simple whips to
pitch mm I mean we'd want to trim that
because that's kind of funky right there
right yeah and the number one tip is you
want to put the edges next to each other
not overlapping yes and we'd probably do
something like that right and the second
tip is when you're sewing hand sewing
with the needle and thread you want to
make sure not to pull too tightly
because will actually start to gather up
where you're sewing so um
gentle stitches don't pull too tight
great okay so what we're going to demo
today that's good hand
and joining tips what we're going to
demo is the machine joining and really
the principle is the same you want to
not overlap your pieces and you want to
I would at the at the machine not push
or pull too much you know right some
people use a walking foot I didn't but
you could yes I use a walking foot and
try to just let the Machine take the bag
through right okay so we're going to
join we're going to join a piece and
I've trimmed this pretty well so I mean
these are all these Frankenstein pieces
but I want you know if you want to get
and we're just gonna do a portion of
this but I mean you can really get the
right size that you need
yeah do and it's fabulous I just learned
about this recently it's really good
because you spent the money on it you
know you should do it really quick so so
we're not like in patchwork we're not
doing a seam allowance that's not
happening here we are abutting the two
sides and taking them to the machine now
quick quick thing here I set up my my
stitch to be a zigzag I played around
with my machine and I wrote down what I
liked the setting that I liked did you
know a zig zag can be big it can be wide
you know it can be all these different
all right sizes so I wanted to remember
so I might put this with my batting I
might say this is my little cheat sheet
know for when I'm sewing I give you all
of this negative move over there because
it's starting to take over the place
okay so that's so a little bit um
pinning I don't know we talked about
pinning not not too long ago I did not
pin I suppose just like anything you can
do what feels good to you um I didn't
feel like it was that necessary
like I say Eric and I'm sure you say
this too I mean if you ever find a
teacher that says this is the only way
to do this you just have to run away
because it's not true right run away you
have to find what works best for you
badly
okay so a little bit of joining I set my
zigzag and I'm just gonna go straight
over the zigzag and being really careful
not to I'm not gonna do it but you don't
want to you don't want to scrunch you
don't want a scene you don't want a scar
you could almost call it a scar you
don't want that you want to keep it
really flat then just take your time and
join your pisses together that's really
as simple as that and then you're gonna
trim at the at the than that okay I
think we did it oh there's one more tip
okay so here if you would hand me once
again sure that large package of bedding
and I'm gonna grab something else I'm
gonna go behind you and grab this okay
so if you have different kinds of
batting and you're like well whatever I
could just I mean this is a this is a
polyfill but it's you know like I could
probably join them together and it
wouldn't really make that big of a
difference I'm gonna say no I'm gonna
say don't do it yeah I would agree why
would you think that that might be a bad
idea I mean I'm just pop quizzing you
but if it's a quilt that's gonna be
washed and used exactly on cotton is
gonna shrink more than the poly even if
it's a one yeah totally you're gonna
have funky washing right and that's not
good um also it might quilt differently
well it will cool differently totally if
you got a really thin batting you know
it's gonna look different yeah very very
crazy things could put her through that
Mary true that Erica man um I love
having you here we should just you know
go on the road we should Erica and Mary
so um okay thanks for coming we'll see
you online and make a quilt wine it
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