summer quilt
 

Can you please tell me the best lightweight batting for a summer quilt?
Thank you.

Check with your local quilt shop - they can tell you the properties of each batting.

I have read here that some don't use batting. I always use poly batting. I don't make summer quilts. Someone will be along to answer your question.

I live in Florida and despite that I do not make 'summer' quilts - just quilts. I always use either an 80/20 cotton blend or an 80/20 wool blend. Cotton and wool both breathe. So they are appropriate for both warm and cool locations. Some people think of a 'summer' quilt as having no batting at all - just 2 layers of fabric (top and back).

from a quick google search on "summer weight quilt batting" I came across these fine suggestions:

• a layer of flannel as batting
• a sheet as batting
• no batting layer at all

We live in California, not on the coast. Up in the Sierra Nevadas. Summer is DRY. Wool in the dry summer heat feels scratchy against the skin. I love it in the winter, especially if it's a damp day. Don't know how it would work in the dry summer sandwiched in a quilt.

Is it to used as decoration on a bed? For a summer blanket?

Just this past Saturday, a lady was demonstrating a pieced tablecloth. She serged the seams and mitered the edge to fold back instead of binding. It was thin like most tablecloths and draped beautifully. No need for a backing. The seams were thin so that glasses didn't tip. I think this could be an answer for a pieced spred for summer.

I have noticed that my quilts with 80/20 batting keep us cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Same quilt. I live in Florida.

I want to say theremore is the thinnest but keep in mind people use AC so regular cotton batting might be fine. I usually slee[ under my sheet and one quilt with cotton batting, I use the AC because southern ca can be in the hundreds sometimes and I am fine sleeping under my regular quilt with a thin cotton batting

A layer of flannel would work, or if you can get the Quilter's Dream cotton, the lightest weight, request is nice for
a lighter weight quilt.

My inlaws who have been quilting for ages don't use batting in summer quilts. I also have a few "old" quilts here where the batting has "vanished" due to washings/dryings/age and they still look great!

I just made my first "summer" quilt -- for me! -- and I used flannel. I'm delighted with the weight of this quilt!

That said, last summer I used my quilt with the Hobbs wool batting for most of the summer. It was much less 'sweaty hot' than polyester is and much less dense/weighty than cotton is. It's still my all time personal favorite quilt, all season.

Jan in VA

I pulled out my linen wardrobe last week for the first string of muggy days in Louisiana. I make most of my pieces and love how soft they feel after several washings. Nothing feels as cool in the summer, even when layered. I was thinking the other day that a linen quilt would feel so cool and soft on hot nights when it's too hot for a cotton quilt with cotton batting. Linen does ravel more, so I would use larger pieces and seams. I would also make sure it has just enough quilting to catch the raw edges of each seam in enough places to prevent raveling out, but not so much that it becomes too compacted to have good airflow. I will need to research battings.

Quilters Dream! I love it!!

I have made summer quilts and have made them with no batting. I think flannel might work if you feel you need fabric.

In the days before air conditioning, many people made summer spreads or summer quilts which had no batting at all. Sometimes, if they were able to do so, they slept on porches so they could actually sleep during the hottest weather. Now, with AC, batting would be okay to use.

1/4 (low loft) poly batting from Wal Mart is light weight.

Depends on the quilt and who is going to get it. Also what I have on hand. I cannot tolerate wool unless it has been totally beaten down and not going directly against the skin.

There is a fleece batting for tablerunners and placemats that is very thin, but will give you the quilted look you want, its usually behind the counter at our LQS

I've seen flannel used as a batting, or no batting at all, but then you have to be careful that the backing is light enough to not show through to the front.

My favorite summer quilt has no batting.

Be sure to wash and dry the flannel if you choose to use it. I have had flannel shrink 4 inches.

Flannel - I used flannel in a summer throw a few years ago and it's perfect for a lighter weight quilt. Be sure to wash the flannel before using because it does shrink.

I am sewing a summer quilt, it is a light to medium colored quilt, think I will use 80/20 or possibly bamboo. I still need some substance to the quilt. Make any sense?

I'd go with flannel - its easy, relatively cheap, you don't have to quilt as close as you might have to with batting, and it washes beautifully. Good for summer quilts. Be sure and pay attention to your fabrics, though -- if you have light ones, you'll need a white or off white flannel inside.

I live in Brisbane and its way too hot in summer,so my summer quilts have not batting - the baby quilts have a very light weight batting - and it works very well. Brigitte Giblin- Australian/French quilter (Feathering the Nest)is her book, doesnt put batting in her quilts.

Try using a lightweight fleece. I buy lightweight fleece as batting for baby quilts because it's physically lighter in weight, which I think helps a small child 'handle' it. It's also very soft and the quilt drapes better and feels very soft. I think it would be fine for a summer quilt, especially in an air conditioned room.

I do spray baste it to the top and bottom of the quilt because it is stretchier (is that a word?) than regular batting.

You can get lightweight fleece in Walmart at a very reasonable price.

Before I started quilting I often made baby wraps (like a receiving blanket) for summer that were just two layers of seersucker stitched together. Very lightweight but able to keep off the chill in air conditioning. If wanting it a bit warmer a layer of flannel would work great.

You may think I'm nuts, but after spending a couple of years living in the UK, I became very familiar with "diaper batting". This is fabric you make diapers out of, and you can get it for $3.98 a yard here in the US. Makes a wonderful lightweight batting, and adds body to a quilt that would only be the top quilted onto the back. It's 100% cotton, and it breathes wonderfully.
Here's a link: http://www.fabric.com/ProductDetail....4-f8815aa1eccf

Fabric.com also has wonderful diaper flannel, and other kinds of diaper material, most of which I've used at one time or another. Just a thought!

I live in Texas on Galveston Bay. I would make one with a layer of flannel as the backing and no batting. Unless my husband turns the a/c on full blast, then I would use one of my other warm quilts with cotton or 80/20 batting.

I always thought summer quilts don't have batting! that is the beauty of them I think.

Thermore light.