When I first began my quilting adventure, I was unsure what batting to use. I would stand for an hour or more in the batting section of Joann’s just starring at the endless possibilities in front of me – cotton, polyester, blends, weight, pre-shrunk, size, packaged, rolled??? I hadn’t a clue. But, because I don’t like to ask for help, I decided to just make my best educated guess and go for it: a packaged, crib size, polyester blend batting. Well, I soon discovered that I had made the wrong choice…for me at least. First off, when I took the packaged batting out of its wrapper, it had more wrinkles than the load of laundry that has been sitting in my dryer for the past day-and-a-half (ooops!), which made it extremely difficult to get my quilt to lay flat. The size I chose was right on, but the material was not. I found the polyester blend to be almost slippery while I was sewing…which led to a lot of bunching and stretching, resulting in a very funky looking quilt.
After doing some more quilting research online, I decided to give Warm & Natural’s 100% cotton rolled batting a try. LOVE IT! And, after finding myself making countless numbers of trips to the fabric store to cut more yardage of this batting for each quilt I made, I decided to just save myself the hassle (and gas) and buy the ENTIRE roll…all 40 yards of it! I was able to use a coupon, which almost halved the retail cost! And best yet, I can now measure out exactly how much batting I need, AS I need it – it’s prefect!
After doing some more quilting research online, I decided to give Warm & Natural’s 100% cotton rolled batting a try. LOVE IT! And, after finding myself making countless numbers of trips to the fabric store to cut more yardage of this batting for each quilt I made, I decided to just save myself the hassle (and gas) and buy the ENTIRE roll…all 40 yards of it! I was able to use a coupon, which almost halved the retail cost! And best yet, I can now measure out exactly how much batting I need, AS I need it – it’s prefect!
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