Let's Get Organized: Week 21 - Batting

(Image from AllPeopleQuilt)

This week's workout is to go through your collection of assorted batting. Let's face it, quilt batting is in the way...always. It's big, bulky and often comes in slick packaging that makes storage a challenge. Purchasing by the roll can be cheaper in the long run cost wise, but now you have to find a REALLY LARGE space to store this hulk. Batting comes in a wide range of options; fiber content, color, weight and fusible, the selections are varied based on the type of work or project it can be used for.

Want to know more about Batting? Check out some of these great articles and videos:

Choosing the Right Batting

Batting Choices

Leah Day (Show 1712) explains how to select the best batting for your quilt.

Clean and Clutter Free Options:

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1. Sweater organizer openings are large enough for packages of batting. Dormsmart

2. Shelf divider can keep bags of batting from shifting. Organizeit

3. Hidden away on deep shelves of built in storage cabinets. SewFrench

4. Metal shelf unit inside a closet. Allisonsews

5. Labeled by type on closet shelf. AnaLenaLand

Visually Stimulating Options:

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1. Bonnie purchases batting when on sale. The bag is labeled with a sharpie marker by type, size, fiber content to be stored on the lower shelf of her storage unit. As batting is used, the bag is re-marked (with the new size) and placed on the top shelf. Once batting pieces are too small, they are moved to a long clear storage bin under her longarm.

2. A clever use of PVC pipe elements. Pinterest

3. Hold batting under your cutting table. Pinterest

4. Shelving under a large cutting table. Susanstarts

5. Another option of batting under a cutting table. Pinterest

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Comments

#17 Marilyn Karper 2018-11-26 09:00

Storage idea #5 is mine!! I designed this cutting table and my husband built it in the room as it won’t go through any doors! The backside has 2 - 36” wide kitchen cabinets with drawers. It is 4’x6’ and works great! Still love it!!
Marilyn Karper

#16 Jeanine 2018-07-09 18:56

I don't have too much batting hanging around. It isn't like fabric which keeps gettting added to my stash. I have used that iron on tape (sorry, can't remember the name of the product) to connect smaller pieces together. It works great and maintains a soft hand. Little pieces of batting at my house get cut up into 3 to 5 inch squares for my husband to clean his guns. It works great for that.

#15 Luvquilting 2018-07-09 07:23

We have three full bathrooms in our house, and we are empty nesters. The downstairs full bath is the one guests usually use, but the tub is never used—except for storing my unopened batting!

#14 Elaine Adair 2018-03-12 09:46

Every time I put leftover pieces of batting back in the closet, I pin a bit of paper on it, on the front of the remnant, with the approximate size. That way when I need a particular size I don't have to wade thru all of them. Cotton batting and 80/20 gets stored separately.

#13 Brenda 2016-05-31 10:28

I have a large plastic clear bag (I think a comforter set from long ago came in it); I keep all of my pieces in it stored on the floor of my fabric closet. whenever I am doing something small, ornaments, etc...I check there first. I have even managed to have enough batting for a rag quilt in there at times.

#12 Millie Sargent 2016-05-31 06:52

I piece my batting together when I have pieces big enough, but I store them in the bags you buy at WalMart that look like a canvas suitcase. You can vacuum all the air out also. Small pieces I cut up to use for cleaning my longarm. :

#11 Quilth 2016-05-31 01:57

There's absolutely no space in my sewing room for batting so I keep 2 large removal type boxes in my attic. One is for cotton batting, the other for wool batting as these are the only types I use. Each piece of batting inside is in a plastic bag with the dimensions in inches and centimetres and a small diagram of its shape on a slip of paper in the bag. This same information is on a piece of paper on top of the box. If I use a piece I cross it out. That way I can see what I have at a glance and I don't need to unpack the whole box.

#10 Sylvia 2016-05-30 19:27

i float my tops=--and use up the pieces of batting so I don't have many little pieces here and there. Really small pieces go into a bin for 'stuffing' teddy bears. My frame is all metal and I use magnets to hold the top in place. I don't sew the batting pieces together as they seem to cling to each other and I cannot tell where one begins and another ends.

#9 Jill 2016-05-30 15:21

I use batting scraps to make pet beds for the cat shelter. They are always happy to have them and the kitties love them too! When a kitty falls in love with a particular bed, it is easy to send with them to their new, forever home and helps them to feel more at ease.

#8 Margarita 2016-05-30 15:10

I don't see any batting in vacuum storage bags so I
imagine this might ruin it but what if you just gently
reduced it a bit to make it more manageable which is
what I would like to do? I always hang out batting to
de-wrinkle before I use it perhaps it might just take
longer this way?

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