First...it's cotton, and not needle punched. Cotton like this is made to be hand or machine quilted no further than 2" apart (some now say 4", but it won't hold up to washing at 4").
You tied the quilt...that's the 2nd issue..no way will un needlepunched cotton hold up to tieing. I have a couple of vintage (1920's) quilts...the batting is about gone in them...lumped up next to the hand stitching.
I have two packages of 100% cotton batting...both came from customers...I replaced theirs with 3oz poly..they agreed after handling one of the old quilts.
For a quilt that will get a lot of washing...100% poly is best.
Originally Posted by
verna2197
Picture number 1 is the batting I use for my quilts. Its all 100% cotton. Suppose to be very good batting. I made a quilt for my bf for her birthday in 2008 she just gave it back cause her dog thought it was a chew toy. As I was taking it apart to fix I just about freaked out. I can't believe that this is what the batting turned into in only 5 years.
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here is picture number 2 after I took the batting out of the quilt.
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Can anyone on here tell me why this happened? It just seem like it should be like this.