Here is my first batted quilt -- I finished (eventually) two "Turning Twenty" quilts for the girls (to be blogged shortly) without batting so that they could be used year-round here in sunny Southern California.
These fabrics are from the Girl Scout collection by Robert Kaufman -- last year's assortment from Hancock's, or possibly the year before (oof). I was going to make another "Turning Twenty" but the fat quarters shrunk so much that it wasn't possible with the bundle I had to get the right size blocks out of them, so I just cut everything into 4x4 squares. I was a little intimidated by the batting, but it actually went together very easily, and I machine-quilted along the seam lines so that the fabric shows off better.
I don't know why now that I got it into my head that I could save time and fabric by making the back and binding in one piece, but I did -- I cut the back a few inches wider all around than the top, folded the hem edge under, then wrapped the "binding" around and top-stitched it down (finishing the mitered corners by hand). It did go fairly easily, but since I didn't have a very big quilt in the end, I was being a bit miserly and folded the "binding" a little too skimpily, and the top has been popping out in places, necessitating hand-mending.
But it has seen a week of day-camping and an overnight weekend and sailed through without a scratch, so I'm quite pleased!
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