Needle holes

[Sheila S. 78]

I am quilting a quilt for a friend and the back is looking really bad. You can see the needle holes and the batting in the holes. I changed the needle so there is a new sharp needle but still have this problem.

 

[Mary Beth 840]

To me, this looks like pokies...or batting coming through the needle holes. I think maybe your batting was upside down with the scrim on the wrong side.

 

[Sheila S. 78]

I usually use warm and natural but this person brought me her own batting and I really do not know what it is. Saying that it was nice and soft but I could not see a difference on either side.

[Mary Beth 840]

I think it will be okay when she washed the quilt. Or even once the fabric relaxes after being off the frame for a while. Sometimes the cheaper batting from JoAnn's can be really bad to quilt. That would be my guess.

[cegates 194]

Sometimes putting the quilt in the dryer after it is finished will help.  

 

Carol

[Sheila S. 78]

Thank. You for your comments. I will put it in the dryer to see if that helps and will they'll the owner to wash it after she puts the binding on.

[jimerickson 459]

This is one of the reasons I supply the batting for all the quilts I do.  When I supply it, I at least know what it is and how to deal with it.  While I use wool most of the time now (it does not beard), back when I was using cotton blend, I'd use a black batting for quilts with red backs.  The black bearding is much less offensive on red.  Jim

[loraquilts 167]

Okay, stupid question of the day..... how can you tell which side of the batting is the right side and goes face up on your backing?  I'm constantly confused by this.  Is it the smoother side or the not smoother side?  I've looked at various threads and websites and they all say pretty much the same thing...."look at the direction of the needling."  I don't know which direction the batting was needled.  Am I missing something seriously easy to detect?  If so, please please share your wisdom with me.  Thanks ever so much.

 

[zeke 287]

On warm and natural the backing side is always on the inside.  I mean on the folded side.  If you take it off the bolt or out of the package the backing side is going to be on the inside fold.  If your careful you can actually pull back the scrim and see it.  Hopefully this makes sense, because I'm sick and my head feels like it's going to pop.  Zeke.  

[mamu 148]

Yes, like Zeke said.. with W&N the side that goes down on the backing is always on the inside of the folded batting.  Another way i figure it is 'dirty' side up...which means anything that looks rough or have cotton particles goes up with the quilt top laying on it... hope this makes sense

[jimerickson 459]

Lora:  I've only really used Hobbs and Pellan cotton/poly blend battings, so my experience is limited to them.  Neither have a "scrim" on them.  They are needle punched which means the batting is punched with a lot of needles to hold it together.  You want to quilt it the same way it was needle punched.  If you look very closely at such a batting you'll see the needle holes, but more importantly you'll notice some of the punches show by a protrusion of fibers on the down side.  You want to place the batting so that side is down.  You can kinda feel it, but close examination really shows it.  The rolls of Hobbs I use has the down side folded in I think.  Hope this helps.  Jim

[loraquilts 167]

I'm just taking a W&N bat out of the packaging.  Sure glad I hadn't unfolded it before I read this thread.  I'll take a close look at it and since there will be plenty left over, I'll mark a scrap with what is the "top" and what is the "bottom" of the batting.  : )  Thanks guys!