chantillydreams

Had anyone had experience with silk/bamboo blend batting?

sherian

I say yes, I only use cotton or poly. as I have an allergy to wool. People don't seem to think of that when
giving quilts. They are a lot of people in this group with me, I never buy quilts or blankets - you never know what is in them. Hope this doesn't sound bad.

justflyingin

I probably would never use wool--I itch just thinking about it.

I always use poly batting. That's what we have here. it is affordable for me--I pay about $1/meter for 150 cm wide batting.--about $50 for a 50 meter (a little more than 50 yards) roll. It means I can afford to make lots of charity quilts.

It also means that If I get "good" at quilting this poly, then when I get to work with cotton batting, it should be a real breeze, right? I just made two king size polyester batted quilts this year--so you all are telling me that doing the same king size only using cotton batting would be easier FMQ? Fantastic.

I did notice that when someone sent me a baby sized quilt all sandwiched, with cotton batting, but not quilted, it took only minutes to quilt--and it seemed much easier than I was used to, since I normally use poly batting. I thought it had to do with the fact that it was a baby size instead of the normal bed sized ones I tend to do. Maybe it was because the batting was all cotton (and quite thin)--it did sew up like a dream.