Karen, I just loved watching your whole process for this after quilt! I’m a rookie, so I don’t have all those scrap pieces. But I’m intrigued by the process! Thank you so much for documenting this entire job and being so incredibly honest! Someday I hope to have the scraps to warrant an after quilt! Blessings to you!😊

Enjoying the replay ❤

Enjoying the replay ❤

Beautiful work ❤

Something i wish i knew when i bought my machine. I thought buying a quilting machine i would be able to quilt my projects on it. My machine is great for piecing but almost any machine would be. To my surprise, when i was ready to quilt i found i can't quilt anything bigger than a placemat because my machine only has about a 5"throatspace. Who would have thought😂. Unfortunately when your looking at machines on line, throat space is rarely mentioned, except on high dollar machines. There aren't any storesclose to me so i did the best i could. I've watched hundreds of videos and never have i seen anyone address this. Unless you want to send out everything you do to be quilted, please be aware of this. For the price of having 7 throws quilted i could have paid for a machine where i could have done it myself. I love your channel so maybe you could mentain this fact to let people who want to start quilting know. At least 12" throat space is required. Thanks so much

I have binged so many of your videos over the past week, finally just made time for a RAAAAAWR ALL THE VIDEOS time, and wanted to say thank you for all the tips and stuff. I've actually been following your channel for like a year now, and I just really love it. So figured it was time to say something

I made a beautiful snuggle size, truly scrappy potato chip quilt using leftover 4.5 × 2.5 chips. It took what felt like a lifetime because: 1) I chose each chip rather than using a grab bag technique, 2) I had to sew them end-to-end, chip by chip, 3) I hand embroidered a center panel with multicolored dragonflies as a focal point. The result was totally worth the time spent, though, and my sister loves it! I have plenty of scraps and chips leftover to make a few more, which is great bc I have had several requests from friends and family for similar quilts. I am a new quilter, but to anyone who hasn't given it a try, I say Go For It! Expect to spend some time, but with Karen's great info you'll do fine. Leah Louise gives a very chatty but wonderful potato chip quilt tutorial for using 4.5 × 2.5 chips if you want to try it. Thanks, Karen, for all of your great tips and tricks and encouragement!❤

I don't live in America. I only wish I had a choice. For store bought I can choose between thick or thin polyester. Online the price for shipping and import taxes makes it impossibly expensive. I typically use cheap fleece blankets that I buy on sale after Christmas or old flannel sheets that I scrounge around for from family and friends. Anytime anyone mentions spring cleaning I immediately offer to take any cotton or flannel sheets ,duvet covers or pillow cases they want to get rid of. The old ugly flannels get sandwiches but sometimes I get a nice sheet I can use for backing or even some fun pillow cases I can cut up for patchwork. Fabric is so stupidly expensive I don't let any go to waste.

Karen! You are the best teacher I ever looked for detailed information round quilting ❤️

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I think the "ugly" fabric in your video is quite pretty! Thanks for all of these great wrapping methods!

I love that Ekta's son loves embroidery. When my Dad was a young boy, he sat with his Mom, aunts and great aunt while they quilted. He wasn't that interested in quilting but he was interested in the family history and gossip.

I have a question for you. Why do patterns not take into 16 inch mattress?

My granddaughters like light & fluffy. One of them only likes flannel pillow cases, and blankets, and quilts. Do you have a good recommendation for a batting? Thank you.😊

Thank you! I’ve got 2 very different quilts to sandwich. I appreciate your tips!

I think I've noticed you using a fabric design wall, right? What fabric? I have moved to a studio apartment with very limited space and must get creative to get...well...creative.

I have my sewing treasures and machines in. 3 different rooms. I am hoping soon to get the whole clan of treasures together. So I did get a few more ideas from this video on how to get these items talking to each other that I am using some of the ideas. Thanks ever so much. 🎉💕🇨🇦

I'd like to make a quilted bag and I keep seeing fusible batting mentioned for this but am not sure what to choose- do you have any advice please? Many thanks for your great videos- I'm learning so much for your advice. Do you hzve a video on quilted bag making or might you consider doing one for us ?

I franken-piece.

what about using fleece or flannel? ive been saving up yards of fleece found in thrift stores. i also have some fleece scraps for small chair quilts.

I’ve always used cotton batting, but I want to do wool with my next project. I am making a whole cloth quilt, repurposing an old linen/cotton blend duvet cover. Since the fabric is old, it won’t be shrinking any. Should I prewash and dry the wool batting, before sandwiching, pinning, and quilting?

Am I the only one that finds it weird that they're all about natural and organic, but throw in plastic pillows?

What is your favorite that you use most of the time? I didn’t hear you say that.

QUESTION PLEASE. But first Thank you !!😊 Great information! Now my one question about minky/cuddle backing for my quilts and which batting is best used with that type of material? I had one quilt that I used cuddle fabric on, and it was recommended by my longarm quilter not to use batting due to its ’heaviness’ and I was so disappointed in the way that quilt turned out. 😢 Hope you can help me to choose ‘wisely’ with my next minky/cuddle backing. 😊

This looks just fabulous! I would love to do this someday.

Great video Karen! When I started exploring quilting it was during the pandemic and in-store was limited, so I just used fleece as my battings because I knew what it was and how affordable & available it was from Joann’s. It was a good way for me to start. Now I try the other types that you mentioned….bamboo is my favorite (these days 😉).

Thank you so much for your videos. What are your thoughts on using fleece as batting? I make quilts out of baby’s clothes and wanted to use cotton but cotton batting are nonexistent in my country. The next available are polyester fill which do not appeal to me. Thank you so much for your videos. I learn from you a lot. 🩷

Karen, i made a gorgeous quilt out of "Palm Canyon" that my sister in law actually liked! And it is time for a new iron!

Thanks for the great video! ❤In my experience, cotton is far from best for handquilting! Also, avoid needlepunched battings for handquilting as they are more dense and resist more to the needle. In mypwrsonal experience, wool and silk are easiest to handquilt, followed by low loft poly. Happy stitching!

Thank you so much for the tip to watch this video tutorial. It is exactly what I needed. I have learned so much.

I hope I've got the correct video. Is this the one where you were talking about how many blocks for different size quilts? Is there a link to that? Thank you for such a wealth of information! Love watching your videos!

Have you tried using a paper scoring tool with a ruler rather than just folding? I've found it much easier to get that perfect accuracy. The one I have is like a pen that you can draw over the lines and it scores the paper for folding.

Thanks for this video it was very helpful. I am so bad at getting a quilt finished and ready for the quilt

Thank you so much for this video. I have a room that has my office, sewing stuff and cricut stuff and need to see how to organize it. Thanks so much again.

Thank you. It was extremely helpful.

Thank you!! I wouldn't presume to call my projects quilting because, if any quilting is done, it's a wonky stitch in the ditch...my aim started with preventing a ton of old hospital sheets, gowns etc from the landfill and at the same time doing my insane charity work!!! I took out my sewing .machine that had been stored for 16 years and sent it in for a service...by the 5 th wo my, awful but I found you!!! I learned to cut straight, that cheating isn't cheating, that perfection is for others and that my quilts go for a functional use...they have improved by leaps and bounds and I devour your videos over and over...So vicariously you have blessed countless poorlittle children. In South Africa...2024 I made 136...that includes 5 months away from my sewing machine...none are perfect..a are owned..a that fabric except the fleece or batting is offcuts that others would toss out...the scraps I can't use are shredded and used as stuffing for 100's of knitted toys...saving our planet 1 piece at a time!! All Thanx to you giving me the courage to try...I cringe when my photos throw up a memory of those first patch work almost triangles with more mistakes and ignorance than anyone would believe. THANK YOU

Karen, I love how you put this information into an easy to understand format. I would love to know where you got the reference chart with the different types of batting on it. That would be so helpful for new quilters to actually see and feel what each type of batting is. When it is in bags, it is hard to determine what to get.

I love that crinklification is a word!!!!😊

I love that info about the frugality of just purchasing a king size for 2 crib size and twin , also by the roll. Thanks so much!!😊

So much useful information here. Thanks so much Karen.

Scraps.....my daughter takes my scraps and uses them for dust rags.

So what is your favorite?

Something happened to the sound when you are sitting and talking. The voice overs are fine and the music.

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Great video. I buy a roll about 2X/ year for my charity quilts. I can afford this as most of my material is donated. I use a 20/80 as a general batting.

I've had itchy eyes from one brand of batting and won't purchase again. It was a pandamic panic purchase. The roll is almost all used up. They are not all created equal. I've not noticed problems after binding is on, thankfully. Love this video and the idea of buying one singular kind and brand.

Thanks again Karen for this very informative video on batting types. I really enjoyed it and learned so much!

I live on the Great Plains where summers can have temps over 100* and winter nights below zero are common - wool is definitely my favorite batting. I hand quilt and I have found I prefer wool for this as well. I had one top with a lot of bright white so I chose a bleached cotton. That cotton grabbed my thread so much as I quilted. I didn't like it at all. Plus it didn't feel as soft. Wool isn't cheap, but I only do about I quilt a year and spend so much time in the quilting that it is worth it for me.

I don't use batting at all anymore. I discovered something i like better quite by accident. I was making a baby quilt on a deadline and realized I had no batting. I used 2 layers of flannel instead, and it came out so nice and was so easy to quilt, I have since been using 2-4 layers of flannel on everything. The quilts are drapey and quilt up smoothly. I search for ugly flannel on clearance and piece it together if necessary and have even used cut up old flannel shirts. I don't sew the pieces together, i just lay them into the sandwich with a little overlap. It makes me feel like I am quilting closer to what my great grandmother probably did, she didn't have polyester batting, and her quilts made in the 1930s are still holding up. I did a little surgery on one of her quilts and what a nice surprise to see it looks like she used old clothes instead of batting. Seems we are indeed "cut from the same cloth", Mother Necessity where would we be??