flannel quilts
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Too hot and heavy depends on where you live and how warm you keep your house. I live in western Washington with cool wet winters and slightly less cool and wet summers. We keep our house heated in the low 60s during the cooler months so here I think it would be just about right. I'm in the process of gathering old men's flannel shirts for a quilt and I plan to make it like you describe. If you heat your house into the mid or high 70s, or live in a warmer climate, it could be on the warm side.
Rodney
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I like using a single layer of flannel as the batting. It's incredibly soft and "supple" ... absolutely no stiffness to it. And since it's a woven fabric you don't have to quilt it densely.
Note that you don't see the quilting much, this might be a bonus
Note that you don't see the quilting much, this might be a bonus
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What size is it and are you quilting on your sewing machine? If it is really big, it might be hard to machine quilt it with flannel and batt. If it is small, I would do flannel and batt because I like quilts toasty warm.
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