Originally Posted by ckcowl

wool batts have nice loft-not an inch but they are soft and fluffy- some of the (big-award winning quilters) use double batts in their quilts to give the quilting more depth/definition. some combine cotton and wool for that purpose. one of the ladies i quilt for always brings in the (loftiest) poly batting i've ever seen-it has to be over 1/2" an inch thick...don't think it's a whole inch but it is very lofty...it is difficult to hand quilt with a lofty batting-- unless doing 'big=stitch' quilting