To use batting or not on my crazy quilt

[Stucknlwll]

Hi!  New here but I need suggestions please. I’m just finishing up my 43x48 crazy quilt and I’m thinking that I don’t want to use a batting. Any thoughts on if I’d do damage to it over the years if it’s quilted with just the backing fabric?

[Gail O]

You might have a problem with tension and stitches not having enough depth to properly lock, if you quilt it on a longarm.  It would probably be best to use your dsm to quilt.  Why you don't want to use batting?

[Stucknlwll]

On 7/22/2022 at 7:26 AM, Gail O said:

You might have a problem with tension and stitches not having enough depth to properly lock, if you quilt it on a longarm.  It would probably be best to use your dsm to quilt.  Why you don't want to use batting?

Thanks for the import. I will be hand quilting this. It's the biggest crazy quilt I've done and it's loaded with charms, making it heavy. I think the puffiness of a lowlife batting would be too much for it

[loraquilts]

If you don't want to use batting, you could use a layer of flannel instead.  I've done that for lighter weight quilts and it works well.