Batting Average?

I usually order my batting on thirty yard rolls and receive it, on average, within a week. That all came to a screeching halt a while back. The batting orders are running way (w-a-a-a-y) behind. I contacted the supplier that I use  as I was getting down to the last few yards and learned that there was at least a six week backlog~ yikes! I hadn't planned on that. A quick perusal around other sites revealed more of the very same thing. 

From what I understand: batting sales have been skyrocketing. It all began with a backlog on cotton products and went haywire from there; all the staying at home and quarantining has everyone back to quilting. The serious backlog on white cotton is because the company that does the product bleaching is also involved in production of PPE products and, naturally, those take precedent during the pandemic. The batting companies are caught between a rock and a hard place.  Nevertheless, I placed my batting order on December 6; at that time, the batting companies were rolling out orders that had been placed two months earlier. Wow! 

So, what to do? Small things! I've taken to quilting what I can from the batting scraps that I have on hand.

This table runner was a quick and easy project - on and off the rails in less than a morning, and used up a strip of batting trimmed away from a larger project earlier this year. Save those batting pieces!!

I'll get the binding on it today and it will be ready for Christmas gifting. I've also begun piecing batting and have had great results with butting straight-cut edges up to each other and zigzagging them together. The seams are smooth and flat; once the quilting is completed the batting joins are impossible to detect.  And sew, in the meantime I'm finishing up what I can, waiting as patiently as possible and carrying on! 

Life is Good!