Carol J.

Use Traditional weight or thinner for the easiest hand quilting and you will get the job done faster. My mother always bought Mountain Mist batting for hand quiting but she didn't have the choices we have today.

Carol J.

Hinterland

I like Mountain Mist Quilt Light, Hobbs Polydown, and Mountain Mist Blue Ribbon cotton. For my next quilt I'm using wool.

I always found the polyester battings easier to hand quilt, but some brands beard.

Janet

Holice

if you are going to buy the batting then take a needle with you and "needle" it to see how easy it is to quilt.
Some swear by W&N but I can't push a needle thru it.
So My recommendation is not to make it more difficult than you need. For ease, most of the poly or poly/cotton battings are easy to quilt. I would NEVER use the W&N or W&W for hand quilting......too much trouble and difficult.
then again some swear by it.

ckcowl

batts with scrim (like warm & natural) are made more for machine quilting-
read the packaging- hobbs heirloom is a wonderful batt for hand quilting-
batts that say on the packaging-- recommended quilting every 2-4"---without scrim are the batts usually used for hand work-
wool batt is WONDERFUL FOR HAND WORK!!!
but if you just want something for practice- to learn pick up a hobbs 80/20 batt- they tend to be fairly inexpensive and very nice to needle.

flowerjoy

I use Warm and Natural for hand quilting... never thought it a problem.

NJ Quilter

I'm with flowerjoy...I've only ever used W&N - didn't know it was supposed to be difficult. With the exception of some charity quilts that require machine quilting, I only hand quilt and have only had issues when using a particularly thick thread or really dull needles. I use Roxanne #11 or #12 needles. Threads I try different things all the time. Depends on what colors I want for the quilt that I'm doing.