Using fleece as batting

This guide is about saving money on quilt batting. New batting for your quilting project can be expensive.

Back your quilts with polyester fleece instead of the usual batting and cotton backing layers? The result is warm, light, tough, and easy to wash. Tutorial from NewQuilters.com. #fleecequiltbacking, #quiltbacking

Three easy ways to back your quilts with anti-pill polar fleece. Learn whether or not to use batting and two ways to bind your quilt!

Your quilt batting plays a huge role in its finished appearance. It’s also a big factor in how easily your quilt runs through the machine or how easy or difficult it is to hand-quilt. After all the hard work you’ve put into piecing your quilt top, choosing the right batting is vital. Luckily, our new downloadable guide, “10 Tips for Selecting the Perfect Quilt Batting,” walks you through the selection process from start to finish.

Waste not, want not, right?! I have a thing for piecing scraps of batting together to use in small projects. It’s not the only time I piece batting, but there’s something satisfying about using what I have and making do. Here I am preparing to piece four different bits together, (don’t laugh), to use in a table runner :)There are many other reasons you may need to piece batting. If your quilt is odd-sized and the packaged batting needs to be made longer or wider, you may need to add a strip…

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Here's a close look at why choose one batting over another by asking yourself these 4 questions. It will narrow down your best choice.

My short answer, never ever, ever again! Let me explain…warning, it’s a long one. You might want to grab a cuppa! I have talked on here before about my fear of quilting. Like a lot of q…

Find many useful sewing tips in this interfacing guide video tutorial on how to fuse interfacing for your beginner sewing projects, which side of the interfacing is fusible, is fusible fleece the same as interfacing, how do you clean fusible interfacing from an iron. You will see what fusible interfacing problems you may have, what types of fusible interfacing are available, also fusible web vs fusible interfacing for bags or t-shirt quilt.

Hi there! Now that we have our quilt tops ready to go, I want to show you how to baste your quilt! But first, we need to go over batting....