Originally Posted by minstrel
I started out using the poly, but most of my early quilts have quite a bit of bearding (and I HATE that), so for the past 4-5 years I've used only Warm and Natural. Love that stuff.
What is bearding?
If you don't leave huge chunks of the quilt unquilted, poly shouldn't ball up, should it? I've been sleeping under a poly-filled comforter these last 20 years (hope to have made some quilts eventually), not quilted small at all, washed it many times and it's still absolutely fine. So I can't see why poly batting should lead to such problems.
Good point about the flammability of polyester, especially for babies' quilts.
The poly batting I used for my class table runner was Soft n Crafty brand. The rest of the class used the instructor's suggested brand, Quilter's Dream. To me that was exceedingly flat. I preferred mine. I'm told the loft of the batting makes a difference, and of course you want a low loft for a table runner. When I checked my batting brand just now, I saw that the package says Extra Loft. Oops, but it's not that puffy, actually, only slightly more so than the Quilter's Dream. It wasn't at all hard to machine quilt or to hand sew on the binding.