polyester or cotton batting for qayg?
#3
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All cotton bats that I have seen/touched are low loft and quilt up pretty flat. You still get definition of your quilting designs but fluffy is definitely not an adjective I would use to describe cotton batting. Cotton gives the old fasioned "flat" look to quilts and will usually give a nice wrinkle to the quilting stitches after washing. Quilter's dream does make a Supreme loft and a Deluxe loft cotton. They claim it to be a higher loft but I have never used it nor even seen a sample of it.
http://www.quiltersdreambatting.com/user-guide.htm
If you want fluffy go with a higher loft poly like poly down, Fat Batt, Quilters Dream Puff or Quilters dream Deluxe loft poly. Wool is also very fluffy but also very spendy.
http://www.quiltersdreambatting.com/user-guide.htm
If you want fluffy go with a higher loft poly like poly down, Fat Batt, Quilters Dream Puff or Quilters dream Deluxe loft poly. Wool is also very fluffy but also very spendy.
#4
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: NYC, NY
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I have done a number of QAYG - I always used cotton batting - the last QAYQ I used a poly because I wanted it to be fluffy - I had never used poly before and it was a disaster for me - not one square came out the same size - I am not sure why this happened -I was doing a complicated pattern "Snail Trail" but had an excellent teacher. you have to be very precise in your measurements and drawn lines if using poly. Other people might have a better explanation and what to look out for when using poly versus cotton.
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All cotton bats that I have seen/touched are low loft and quilt up pretty flat. You still get definition of your quilting designs but fluffy is definitely not an adjective I would use to describe cotton batting. Cotton gives the old fasioned "flat" look to quilts and will usually give a nice wrinkle to the quilting stitches after washing. Quilter's dream does make a Supreme loft and a Deluxe loft cotton. They claim it to be a higher loft but I have never used it nor even seen a sample of it.
http://www.quiltersdreambatting.com/user-guide.htm
If you want fluffy go with a higher loft poly like poly down, Fat Batt, Quilters Dream Puff or Quilters dream Deluxe loft poly. Wool is also very fluffy but also very spendy.
http://www.quiltersdreambatting.com/user-guide.htm
If you want fluffy go with a higher loft poly like poly down, Fat Batt, Quilters Dream Puff or Quilters dream Deluxe loft poly. Wool is also very fluffy but also very spendy.
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