Originally Posted by Annaquilts

Interestingly I was told at Quilt in a Day to put the side with the seeds to the wrong side of the backing fabric. The reason- so the seeds and stems would not show or spill minute amounts of vegetable oils still in the seeds. I always make sure to put the seed side down when loading the long arm and have done hundreds of quilt on a Janome 650, larger throat domestic sewing machine and also on a long arm Innova 26 inch throat opening and have never had any problems related to the Warm and Natural batting having the seed side down. I also did not see anything about it on the packaging , good side bad side, like another poster mentioned. I might just need to try it either way to see if it makes a difference for my machine.

I do think it is very possible it was bad batting. I had Hobbs 80/20 straight out of the bag, also from Joanns. It shredded and was nothing like the Hobbs 80/20 I had or had used before. I contacted the person I was quilting for and she requested for me to go ahead and use it. I quilted it very close and tight. Her adult son has used it for over 2 years and they washed it before he used it. When receiving long arm training out of state I was told to always check bolts of batting as they come in because they had a problem before with a bolt of Hobbs 80/20 that shredded. Hmmm... Interesting.