Frankenbatting gone bad!!

On Thursday, I showed you my process for basting quilts on the design wall, rather than crawling all over the floor!!

That quilt went well….

The next one did NOT…

You see, the day that I put the batting together, I was not in a very good mood and just wanted to be done with it. Consequently, I didn’t measure it well enough…. but I didn’t know that when I started.

I pinned the batting to the design wall…..

… and positioned the top over the batting…..

…and could see that it was going to be a close fit!

But, not deterred, I sprayed and added the backing fabric and then trimmed it off to “match” the frankenbatting..

When I turned it around, I could see exactly where my problem was going to be….

I put the top on again and could DEFINITELY see where my problem was….

There was a BIG section without any batting…..

And yes, I could have started over and fixed the batting, but I chose to do something different….

I simply added two smaller pieces of batting to the naked fabric….

Remember that the backing fabric had basting spray on it and the top will have been sprayed as well!!

Before I took the top off to be sprayed, I marked the top edge and corner of the top …..

…so that I could be CERTAIN that it would end up in the correct place.

After spraying the top, I added it to the batting sandwich, ensuring that it matched the marked areas exactly!!….

I pinned the top into place…..

Amazingly, it worked…..

I took the additional precaution of placing a few pins into the “un-attached” batting….

Here it is laid out on the bed to “rest”.

Is this the perfect solution? ….NO!!

But, did it work in this situation? Absolutely!!

Once I have quilted the borders, I believe that the “error” will be unnoticeable.

But, I will certainly be more diligent next time I make “FRANKEN-BATTING”!!