Weight loss tip. Eat butter. No sugar or white flour. Two eggs (fried in butter) help you feel full until lunch.
Your brain needs fat, and if you don't give it some "good stuff", it keeps telling you that you are hungry. And sugar is your enemy. White flour turns to sugar in your stomach. Keep the sweet stuff out of the house so you are not tempted.

What FelineFanatic said, post #40!!

Two batts have not been mentioned much. Bamboo and Wool. We like both at the store and we have 80/20 also, but the bamboo and wool is what we like best. Bamboo is nice because it has antimicrobial properties and it's absorbent. In order to turn bamboo into a fiber, it is soaked in hydrogen peroxide which gives it the antimicrobial properties. The antimicrobial properties don't last forever, but it helps in places like baby quilts and nursing homes. Not so good for hand quilting cause it's a little hard to needle by hand. Bamboo is used in underwear cause it is absorbent.

Wool is my most favorite cause I like fluffyness which means that you can see the patterns in the quilting. In addition it really breathes, so it's just enough in the summer and nice and comfy in the winter. Wool batts are not scratchy. You will never guess that it is wool when you run it against your hand. Easy to quilt with. I love it.

Scrim. Don't use something with scrim. Scrim holds layers of the batting fiber together, but it causes the edges of your quilts to wave, so they never lay flat.

As far as W & N. Wool and Bamboo beat it every time.

I like warm and natural too as others have stated. I often save my coupons or 50% off deals for JoAnn's and use them on batting. I will by a King sized piece and can get several quilts, baby, throws and a twin or some combination from one package. I also am a fan of the quilt tape that is used to combine smaller pieces of batting together. It works well and I have had not problems with it in the wash or showing in any way. Good product. Happy quilting to you.

Personally I don't like poly as it is too fluffy, I like Warm and Natural. It quilts nicely on my home sewing machine ( not a quilting machine). Just my opinion. Calla. Can't help with the weight issue as I am a dumpling, like to cook and eat.............

Most of the major names in quilt batting(hobbs, quilters dream etc.) has loads of information on their web sites.

feline fan -- (me too)

You must have read my mind! I was writing off polyester even though I have always loved polyester ever since it came out in the late 70's. (I wasn't a quilter then.) My first purchase of polyester was a lime green pants suit. Sounds awful, but it had some blue stripes in the jacket part. I LOVED IT! Of course it would never shrink, and never needed ironing. I couldn't wear it out, and it looked just like new when I took it to the Goodwill 5 years later, and only because I had gained weight and knew I would never be that size again. :(

I almost exclusively use Warm and Natural batting in my quilting. It lies nice in wall hangings, as well as place mats, table runners, as I like not having to quilt so closely together; although I mainly use it because I like the way it works when I'm machine quilting.

This is great advice. I thought JoAnn's was the cheapest source with a coupon until I read your post. Thanks!

Who on earth told you this?? Are they also trying to sell you a bridge?

I did a lot of research several years ago about bamboo batting. If it is processed mechanically, meaning a machine beats the snot out of it and then combs it, it does have antimicrobial properties. However, this process is very labor-intensive and drives the cost of the product up. So it's usually processed chemically, however not with hydrogen peroxide. It's processed with multiple chemicals including bleach, sulfuric acid, lye, and carbon disulfide.

if you've always loved polyester then try some that's been recommended. 2 of my worst experiences EVER were with poly batting but I've used other poly batting that was pretty good - just fluffy and hot - whichmakes them harder for me to fold flat and sleep under most of the year where I live. on the other hand my aunt who's close to 90 swears by poly and doesn't understand ANYONE wanting flat cotton batting when they could have nice soft and cuddly poly! her church quilting group has 2 tops of mine(I didn't make them my mom bought them somewhere) and she's gonna get the backing and batting and I already know she wants poly - I just asked that she go with thinner if she did LOL! she handquilted some cheaters for my mom and they're so thick. beautiful and cherished but they're so fluffy they take up 2-3x as much space on the shelf as the cotton quilts the same size. but for soft they win hands down. I love when it gets hot enough to use them. my worse poly experience was a gray poly - it kept stretching and seemd to pull and just had a yucky feel/texture to it - I should have stopped then but I went ahead and used it - that quilt is not soft and fluffy -probably didnt help I used a lot of kona fabric in it so it feels rougher - I plan on washing it soon and seeing if that softens it a bit- the fabrics were prewashed but I haven't used the quilt enough to wash but think I will anways. I really liked the top so hopefully the wash will work a miracle! ;-)

I haven't tried wool - someone told me it was nice but too hot for the south...that was just one opinion though - plus it's pricey and not as easy to find here and was also told it absorbs moisture and gets heavy- thought being in the humid capital of the US it wouldn't be good to use...will have to look into it.

I used a 50/50 brand before and it has done nicely and washed that quilt several tmes- something I got at hobby lobby with a sale or coupon seems like.

I've had good luck with hobbs 80/20 (friend has used it in my quilts), warm and natural/white, and white/cream rose - I think the cream rose has been my favorite overall.

I seen a show can't recall what show but it had a segment about butter vs. margarine, of course the butter is better for you and the margarine has so much oil in it. They showed where they place some butter on a sidewalk and some margarine on the sidewalk too, the bugs wouldn't eat the margarine only the butter, so even bugs know the margarine is mostly oil. I know this has nothing to do with batting, but I couldn't resist telling about the butter vs. margarine. We have used only real butter since that show years ago.
Jeri

Good question! Thanks for sharing the links and info on batting.