Heavy quilt
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Heavy quilt
My 84 year old Mom has a quilt I made with Hobbs 80/20 batting with pretty dense quilting. Mom says quilt is now to heavy for her. My sister has asked me to make her a new top then her church will tie it. Her friends have told her it's the quilting that makes it heavy. Do you think it's the quilting and tieing will make it lighter?
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The batting and the amount of piecing plays more into the quilt's weight than the quilting. All those seam allowances add a lot of weight. Poly or wool batting with a sparsely pieced top will be much lighter in weight. Tieing vs quilting will not make much difference in the weight of the quilt. Maybe a few ounces but no more.
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Thanks everyone, I feel I am wasting my time making this top but it is a much bigger pattern, 12" Contrary wife, while her other one has tons of small pieces and I will make sure my sister uses a light weight batting
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You might think about the size of the quilt, too. A queen-sized quilt is going to be much heavier than a twin, which will be heavier than a lap size. And harder to fold up if they're using it on the couch. Maybe consider making her a smaller, lap-sized quilt that can be easily used and folded.
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