Dec 18th, 2010 by Pat Barry

This is a busy time of year for everyone, especially professional quilters who are trying their best to complete many customer quilts in time for the holidays. I am a professional quilter too, and I know first-hand how little spare time is available for fixing any unexpected problems. I made my deadlines, but must give credit to a couple products that made it possible. First is a relatively new product called “Heat Press Batting Together”,

It does exactly what it says – uses heat (carefully of course) to join two pieces of batting together. The product is a roll of fusible cloth tape that looks and feels like tricot – nice and soft and pliable. It has an adhesive on one side that is activated with heat. I first learned of this product at the Checker Open House last August.

If you are a quilter too, you know the sinking feeling when you are approaching the bottom of the quilt and the batting is too short. Although you know you measured correctly, something happened and you need to add another piece. Don’t waste time worrying, just cut another piece of batting and fix it using Heat Press Batting Together.

I didn’t even remove the quilt from the table – I just put my ironing board in front of the quilt table, flipped the quilt top up and out of the way, positioned the batting pieces on the ironing board and aligned the edges.