About batting

[marym]

I am making my Granddaughter a quilt. She is moving into her big girl bed I see that there is a flame retardant batting. Has any one used it before? Any thoughts on batting? This is my first quilt other than the one I have making in my class.
Mary

[homesteadmamma]

This comes from the tutorial I did on "putting the quilt together".

You'll need batting. Batting comes in a number of different types but I'm only going to mention 3 here because thats all I've ever used. When you purchase the batting, most come in the sizes of single, double, queen or king.

When you pick your batting, you need to decide how heavy your want your quilt, if your going to only be using your quilt as a wall hanging or decoration.

The 3 I'm going to mention are:

Low Loft 100% poly
Poly-down - 100% poly
Warm & Natural - 100% cotton

If your going to hand quilt, you need to choose low loft or poly-down. You can pull your needle through the batting with no problem. You can also use this batting if you've chosen to use your machine to quilt. Its not the best though but it does work. YOU CANNOT USE WARM & NATURAL to hand quilt. The needles won't go through.

Warm & Natural is wonderful batting which comes in rolls. When you go into a quilting store, you'll need the size of your quilt and you'll buy Warm & Natural in metres/yards. It is perfect to use when machine quilting and once you've used it, you probably won't want to use anything else. There are different thicknesses of Warm & Natural. It is more costly than poly though.

For first time quilters, I would suggest Warm & Natural, but I'll leave it up to you as to what you pick.

I love Warm & Natural. Although it is expensive, it is so much easier to work with. I do use the poly-down because the cost is so much less than Warm & Natural, however if I had my choice (finances) I would use only Warm & natural in all my quilting.

[SewCrafty]

I agree with CJ, Warm and Natural is indeed the best.

[guest32]

I have never heard that Warm and Natural cannot be hand quilted??? Far as I know...lots of people use it and hand quilt their projects. I only use W&N, but I machine quilt....