Batting Padding

Save batting trimmed from a quilt to use as packing material. Fragile items, such as crystal and cookies, have made it to their destinations in perfect condition when cradled and held firm in shipping boxes by soft batting.

-Leslie, Moseley

Kearns, Utah

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