I use warm and Natural and I am cold here in Southern California. I am not sure what to say because my children complain too and we all find the warm and natural batting heavy. What we do is use an inexpensive thin and light weight fleece blanket under the quilt when we want a little more. It works wonderful. Several of my children have just married or are getting married. They al register for one of those fleece blankets when they get married and I make the quilt.