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Help me out here. The Hello Kitty Quilt is ready for the backing. It's a lot of pink so am wondering if a pink backing would be too much? Pale purple maybe? Or a light blue? FYI, it's a twin bed size.

Hey y’all! This is a quilt my mom made for my uncle like fifteen, twenty years ago. It has some rips I’m going to fix, and through them you can see batting, but I don’t recognize the batting? Do any of you know what kind of batting this is? It’s got that white mesh-ish fabric over fluff that looks like polyfil

#sewing #quilt question #batting identification quest #I really really like the loft and drape of this quilt #it’s very very cozy #and utterly unlike the drape of the quilts I usually make (I use cotton batting)#but like…I’d quilt closer together for this kind of drape in the finished quilt #on the other hand this was made probably twenty years ago #and my uncle clearly washed it a lot and then I got it and I had it on my bed for years #so it’s been washed a lot a lot of times and maybe that contributed to the softness?

What happens if you don’t quilt as close together as your batting wants you to?

I realize this kind of sounds like the set up to a joke, but I’m genuinely asking. Why does batting have a max distance apart you can quilt it, and how strict a maximum is it?

#quilt question #is this one of those quilting rules that is actually necessary #or one of the ones that is customary but ignorable?#I’m trying to decide how I want to quilt the blue quilt #but it has two rectangles that are still like 18 by 21 inches #and the batting says it needs to be quilted every ten inches #hmmmmmm what to do #diagonal lines?#straight line quilting through the whole darn quilt not following the seams from the quilt top?#random squiggles?#are there like…customary quilting designs?

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