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Sheet as Batting Material Is This Okay to Do?
Kippysan Intermediate CT Member since 4/19/11 Posts: 196	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/7/12 10:15 AM I've finished a queen-sized pieced top and I have my cotton backing material all ready to go. I want to know if I could use a queen-sized, 400-count cotton bed sheet for the batting, instead of the Quilters Dream batting. My goal is to end up with a lighter quilt I could use in the summer. The only quilting I've done so far is on baby-size quilts and most of that was either SITD or following a traced spider-web design. I would like to attempt FMQ on this new quilt. Would this work? Will it give me problems quilting? Kippy
jadamo00 Advanced NY USA Member since 3/13/06 Posts: 1254	Login to reply to this post In reply to Kippysan << Like this post Date: 8/7/12 10:22 AM It will work. In fact, Hawaiian quilters make light quilts by totally OMITTING the batting. Just a top and a bottom, quilted together. j.
Miss Fairchild   Advanced USA Member since 8/24/02 Posts: 7111	Login to reply to this post In reply to Kippysan << Like this post Date: 8/7/12 12:31 PM I do this all the time, especially with my flannel top sheets. The bottom sheets wear through more quickly and I have an "orphan" because I've bought a set. And yes, you can FMQ with this. ------ "We don't impose our rhythm on Nature. The key is to respect and live within Her." Jean-Charles Boisset, Winemaker "And no, now that you asked, I didn't enjoy that play one bit, and I'd like a refund" Signed, Mrs. Lincoln My Etsy shop: auntmaymesattic My blog: auntmaymesattic.wordpress.com Avatar: First place award for jacket at county fair
PortlandMaine   Advanced Beginner ME USA Member since 1/29/11 Posts: 1669	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/7/12 12:36 PM Oh yes! - do ANYTHING you want! ------ Drag queen quilter!
Kippysan Intermediate CT Member since 4/19/11 Posts: 196	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/7/12 4:11 PM Thanks for all of your responses. I'm going to use the sheet for batting! Kippy
Franksdottir   Intermediate Member since 4/25/08 Posts: 2529	Login to reply to this post In reply to Kippysan << Like this post Date: 8/7/12 11:16 PM When I started quilting in the '70's sometimes we had to use cotton sheets, especially for the backs. In those days most quilting was done by hand, and a really good sheet could be hard to quilt through. Still, as all quilters know, you make do. If you are machine quilting you will not find it a problem. ------ Barb
Maia B   Advanced Beginner IL USA Member since 10/27/10 Posts: 3514	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/7/12 11:52 PM I think it works best if the sheet you intend to use has been washed and dried several times. In my experience it makes a thin, but heavy quilt, which I like. ------ 🌸 Plenty of machines, mostly Berninas 🌸
Pamela R   Expert/Couture ON CANADA Member since 6/22/07 Posts: 259	Login to reply to this post In reply to Kippysan << Like this post Date: 8/8/12 11:54 AM Before you put it together and find the quilting hard to do, make a mockup scrap and try to quilt it. My mother always took a needle with her when she shopped so that she could test how it would go through the fabric sandwitch, especially the seams....sometimes 8 layers! We often had quilts with a flannellet sheet as the batting.
Learn To Sew   Intermediate WA USA Member since 4/12/05 Posts: 8238	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/8/12 1:10 PM I don't know if this was asked or not, but what do you do about the sheets header? Do you cut it off before using the sheet? ------ Quilting is relaxing to me. I love to play with fabrics, patterns and colors. Bernina 630 machine only Pfaff 2036 Babylock Molly Bernina 1200DA serger Unique Sewing Cabinet 450L
Lizz   Advanced TN USA Member since 10/10/03 Posts: 258	Login to reply to this post In reply to Learn To Sew << Like this post Date: 8/8/12 6:09 PM Quote: Learn To Sew I don't know if this was asked or not, but what do you do about the sheets header? Do you cut it off before using the sheet? I open the seam and wash/dry the sheet several times before I use it. It will need a good pressing in that area. Now you have a bit more fabric area to use. If you are making a quilt that is much smaller than the area of your sheet, just cut it off.

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