Originally Posted by Tropical
Has anyone heard of using newspaper as batting in a quilt? I was talking to a young woman Walmart associate today who wanted to know if she could help me locate what I was looking for in the magazine department. I was looking for a quilting magazine to browse through while waiting for my DH. She started telling me about three quilts her deceased grandmother had quilted and she had inherited. She was looking for someone to restore them. She proceeded to explain that newspaper had been used for batting. I thought that was a rather odd choice because how would you ever be able to clean them. Just wondering if anyone had heard of that
practice.
It doesn't suprise at all. Quilts were not washed on a regular basis back then so multiple layers of newspaper would not break up easily. Newspaper is actually a very good insulator and when used in multiple sheets is much like a blanket. This is why homeless people use it to keep warm.