Originally Posted by sewverybusy

Once I used a wool batt and it was like butter to hand quilt. It was a twin size. I hand washed it in the bathtub and laid flat in the yard to dry. It came out perfect. It was given to my son and his wife with the instructions that you can't wash it in the washing machine only hand wash. They took it to the cleaners instead and told them it couldn't be washed. However, they washed it and it was now shrunken down to crib size. They collected a $100 or so from the cleaner and just tossed it in the toy box and used it when someone needed a coverup. However I awoke one night and thought the only thing wrong with that quilt was the batt so I unsewed everyone of my hand stitches. I added another border and put the whole thing together again. They love it and they can wash it with the new poly batt.