Originally Posted by quilt9226

The Soft & Crafty batting (48" wide) available at JoAnn Fabrics is 4 oz and it works great for quilts although I do not buy it anymore since the price has almost doubled. Many of the quilts we quilt are flannel, both pieced top and back, and it works well on the longarm. So one ounce more should not make that much of a difference. We rarely quilt small quilts on a DSM but we use a 4 oz batting if we have it. We are quilting quilts for a nonprofit and have become scroungers for batting and purchase batting at thrift stores and rummage sales for the small quilts (we have approximately 100 crib/small tops to be quilted. We use Soft & Brite or Hobbs 80/20 for the larger quilts.

Originally Posted by ansew

Yes, Walmart is certainly on my radar as they have free shipping on most roll batting over $50 and the 80/20 is a great price. I thought maybe the polyester might have a higher loft---not something an inch, but maybe something along the lines of a bedspread like in a hotel/motel.