Claire123

In your opinion and experience, which quilt batting is best for less than perfect piecing? Wool, cotton or 80/20?

I am guessing it's wool, but it's just an opinion.

patchwork

I find a poly works best. Not the thickest one but the puffiness helps take up some of the fabric

Iceblossom

What kind of less than perfect piecing are we talking about?

I'd say if your seams are coming apart/stitch length is too long to use something like warm and natural. A poly or any fluffy batting will start coming through the seams.

If it is that the points or seams aren't perfect, yeah, get a fluffy poly batt so it puffs up around and hides the imperfections.

If portions of the block don't lie flat from workmanship, you can decide if you want to quilt it down and out with a lot of quilting, in which case, W&N type. Or, you can let it puff up with less quilting and a poly batt.

Not sure on the other less than perfections may come up, but there must be more.

Jordan

My favorite quilt batting is Hobbs 80/20. It gives a little body but not too puffy. I am not sure what you mean by "less than perfect piecing"?

liking quilting

I would go with a puffy poly to help hide the boo boos.

Jingle

I almost always use a high loft poly batting for my quilts. For my donation quilts for foster kids I use project fleece from WalMart. It acts like Warm and Natural or Warm and White.

I hope my seams are as close to perfect as I can get them.

Not sure what you mean.

CanoePam

I think a puffy wool is much nicer than poly. It handles temperature variations very well and doesn’t poke through the fabric later. It is amazing what quilting can do to camouflage some of those cut off points or squares that don’t quite line up.

maminstl

I like cotton because of the crinkle factor. Once that happens, any imperfections just disappear to my eye.

Claire123

Thank you, everyone, for your input. It's always interesting to hear everyone's varying viewpoints.