I'm planning to make some Microwave fabric bowls for some friends. I know that one of the requirements is "cotton batting".
Regular 100% cotton batting isn't just cotton. (Arctic White or Warm and Natural both) It's about 13% Polypropylene, the "scrim". Is this batting still "OK" for the project? One friend, who knows a lot more about this than I do says no, don't use it.
I know that the Warm Company made Warm Tater which is microwave safe. I also know that they've just discontinued it.
http://www.warmcompany.com/wnwhitepage.html - the first comment after the write up. The replacement is Warm and Plush, which on their website says: "Limited Time". Hmm.. that's not good.
http://www.warmcompany.com/warm-and-plush.html I know also that Pellon and Quilter's Dream and probably others have a similar product.
Some of the tutorials I've seen show a very white looking batting, so I know that it's not Warm Tater and this one says that they used Warm And Natural:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...s-t144848.html, and someone in the thread several pages in says they used 80/20!
Warm Tater is a relatively expensive batting, since it sells in 22" wide bolts. I have a line on some on "sale" (probably clearance) but it's still $6/m(39") for that 22" wide meter. Should I be going to get (more of) that? (The packrat in me wants it - it's discontinued, etc etc. The frugal side of me says what do you need all of that for? I suspect that the frugal side is going to lose... again.) Or will one of the "100% cotton" battings that are 87.5% cotton be OK? (of which I currently seem to have no shortage of scraps)
I guess at the end of the day, my main question is:
What is a "cotton batting"? One that's all cotton, except for the chemical framework the cotton is punched through to make it stable, or the one that's all cotton and nothing but. I see both referred to as cotton batting, but....?