Thread: What batting have you used that works well for baby quilts?

I have used the Dream Green and it makes a Light, soft quilt that holds up to lots of washings. But don't use it if you have lots of white fabric in your quilt as it does have a green color and will show through. I have also used Mountain Mist poly batting in baby quilts and liked the results. I prefer poly batting for baby quilts.

Hobbs 80/20 is my go to batting, but I do buy the 80/20 that Wal-Mart carries. It is fine for me, but I do look for sales of the Hobbs.

I'm fixing a baby quilt for an ill neighbor and I want to use a couple of layers of hi loft batt but maybe she prefers what she's already using so I was afraid to change it.

Poly batt is fluffier and softer and seems like the better choice for a baby quilt.

Maybe there's some kind of sizing or something that's making it stiff

Will it wash into something softer?

I've never used anything but poly hi loft so I honestly don't know...

Originally Posted by Onebyone

I use wool for all baby quilts. It's light and comfy.

I also love wool. It gives a wonderful stitches definition. I prefer babies wrapped in a 100% natural blanket so I stay away from polyester for them.

I like to stick to natural fibers for baby quilts for two reasons, breath-ability and exposing the infant to less chemicals. Poly batting, while I love it for most quilts is made of chemicals and why expose little lungs to anything more than necessary. Fine once they are toddlers. Also, young infants can't easily kick off the covers if they get overheated so I like to stick with a fiber that will breath and avoid that if possible.

I use 100 bamboo in baby quilts

I have switched completely to Dream Green. It's soft, warm, quilts beautifully and dries quickly. I make mainly baby quilts and table runners. Used to use Hobbs poly down but I wouldn't go back!

The advantage of cotton batting for baby quilts is that it gets softer and softer with each washing. I used Mountain Mist Blue Ribbon 100% cotton batting in a baby quilt many years ago, and after more than 15 years of hard use it feels soft as a cloud to the touch! The binding is worn, but the quilt is soft enough to rub against a baby's cheek.

Cotton takes longer to dry than polyester batting. For this reason, I would use only a thin cotton batting in a baby quilt. I wouldn't use Warm and Natural because it is a thicker cotton batting that is needlepunched through scrim. The thickness means it will take longer in the dryer, and the scrim means it will take many more washings before it starts to soften up. The initial stiff drape of W&N is more obvious in a small baby quilt than in a bed size quilt.

The advantage of a polyester batting in a child's quilt (I like Hobbs PolyDown) is that it will dry very quickly. For this reason, polyester batting is sometimes requested for charity quilts that will be sent to children in other countries (where they do not have dryers).