maviskw

Weight loss tip. Eat butter. No sugar or white flour. Two eggs (fried in butter) help you feel full until lunch.
Your brain needs fat, and if you don't give it some "good stuff", it keeps telling you that you are hungry. And sugar is your enemy. White flour turns to sugar in your stomach. Keep the sweet stuff out of the house so you are not tempted.

Peckish

What FelineFanatic said, post #40!!

merridancer

Two batts have not been mentioned much. Bamboo and Wool. We like both at the store and we have 80/20 also, but the bamboo and wool is what we like best. Bamboo is nice because it has antimicrobial properties and it's absorbent. In order to turn bamboo into a fiber, it is soaked in hydrogen peroxide which gives it the antimicrobial properties. The antimicrobial properties don't last forever, but it helps in places like baby quilts and nursing homes. Not so good for hand quilting cause it's a little hard to needle by hand. Bamboo is used in underwear cause it is absorbent.

Wool is my most favorite cause I like fluffyness which means that you can see the patterns in the quilting. In addition it really breathes, so it's just enough in the summer and nice and comfy in the winter. Wool batts are not scratchy. You will never guess that it is wool when you run it against your hand. Easy to quilt with. I love it.

Scrim. Don't use something with scrim. Scrim holds layers of the batting fiber together, but it causes the edges of your quilts to wave, so they never lay flat.

As far as W & N. Wool and Bamboo beat it every time.

WMUTeach

I like warm and natural too as others have stated. I often save my coupons or 50% off deals for JoAnn's and use them on batting. I will by a King sized piece and can get several quilts, baby, throws and a twin or some combination from one package. I also am a fan of the quilt tape that is used to combine smaller pieces of batting together. It works well and I have had not problems with it in the wash or showing in any way. Good product. Happy quilting to you.

calla

Personally I don't like poly as it is too fluffy, I like Warm and Natural. It quilts nicely on my home sewing machine ( not a quilting machine). Just my opinion. Calla. Can't help with the weight issue as I am a dumpling, like to cook and eat.............

maryfrang

Most of the major names in quilt batting(hobbs, quilters dream etc.) has loads of information on their web sites.

RosaSharon

feline fan -- (me too)

You must have read my mind! I was writing off polyester even though I have always loved polyester ever since it came out in the late 70's. (I wasn't a quilter then.) My first purchase of polyester was a lime green pants suit. Sounds awful, but it had some blue stripes in the jacket part. I LOVED IT! Of course it would never shrink, and never needed ironing. I couldn't wear it out, and it looked just like new when I took it to the Goodwill 5 years later, and only because I had gained weight and knew I would never be that size again.

RosaSharon

Oh maviskw, I know you are right! I will take this to heart and try harder. I also know that real butter is good for a person. (in moderation) Makes perfect sense that it would be better for us than fake margarine.

MargeD

I almost exclusively use Warm and Natural batting in my quilting. It lies nice in wall hangings, as well as place mats, table runners, as I like not having to quilt so closely together; although I mainly use it because I like the way it works when I'm machine quilting.

AllyStitches

This is great advice. I thought JoAnn's was the cheapest source with a coupon until I read your post. Thanks!