Originally Posted by janedennis
I am using warm and natural now and I am very disappointed in the look, i love the feel of it but the stitch in the ditch is not very pronouced and it looks like i didnt sew anything. I expected puffyness. This is for my granddaughter and wanted it to be all cotton. Are there any more lofty type cotton batting out there?
Cotton typically has a flat look. Warm n Natural has a needle-punched scrim which makes the drape somewhat more stiff than most other cotton battings. It also tends to shrink less than most other cotton battings, so you don't get the softening effect of lots of crinkles. If you look at antique quilts closely, you will see that they are all rather flat and crinkled looking because they are all made with cotton batting. (Not needle-punched scrim, which is a newer innovation.)
If you want loft in a quilt, you really need to use a polyester batting. This gives more of the comforter look that people have become accustomed to in recent decades.