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Originally Posted by Holice
(Post 4657519)
I admire the person who can successfully hand quilt W&N cotton batting. That said, I would never recommend starting with this batting. Select one that will be easy to needle and make it easier on yourself until get more eperience. It might be just the thing for you but not everyone.
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hobbs heirloom is a lovely cotton batt for hand quilting- warm & natural- or any batting with scrim is better suited to machine quilting- the scrim makes the batting a more (durable) batt- to withstand the rigors of machine quilting-and allows a larger quilting distance.
any batt without scrim is good for hand quilting -- some of the poly batts are nice---wool is WONDERFUL! |
I also hand quilt and I like Hobbs 80/20. Seems to work better for me than W&N
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warm and natural has bits of hard stuff in it, that I find annoying, so now I use a cotton poly blend. It also seems to shrink more evenly with the quilt when it washed. it is an 80/20 blend by Poly fil. I buy it at Joann's. I am not a purist though, my budget is tight so I buy with coupons.
Originally Posted by cmmcbride
(Post 4657058)
Hi,
I have been hand quilting for the first time and I am using the warm and natural batting. I find it a little stiff when pulling the needle through the layers. If I remember correctly, I think there was a thread on what battings are best for hand quilting. Anyone have any suggestions? I do wash my quilts so I need a batting that will wash well. Thanks, Christina |
I use poly batting as well for hand quilting.
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I love W/Nat but the very devil to hand quilt, so relunctantly use poly , it certainly gives more loft too.
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A month or so ago I purchased Pellon cotton batting on sale at JoAnn's. I had a quilt done this week by my long armer and she said it was the best batting she had ever used. She and I both like W&N but the Pellon is SO soft. She said she had used Pellon off the bolt but this was from a package and was much, much softer. I don't know if this would help with the hand quilting, but thought I'd pass it along.
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I like to quilt with 80/20 mix of cotton and poly. I can not hand quilt through W&N. Hobbs is good. I may be trying Fairfield soon. I just bought it for a machine quilt and liked the feel of it.
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
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I find W&N a bit stiff as well (I hand quilt) - I prefer a polyester batt. The thinner the better.
Good for you for trying it for the first time!! |
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By what I have heard, Warm and natural is hard to needle through by hand. The very nicest handquilting batting I know of is Hobbs Wool, and I havent tried the new last year Quilters Dream Wool, but I predict it will be very nice also... like BUTTER ! ! !
I have also heard that a number of the QuiltersDream battings (not the thickest ones) are very very nice to handquilt. Because the *buttons* say I can insert an image.. I will try that with a tiny thumbnail of Hobbs Wool... hey what the heck... [ATTACH=CONFIG]286361[/ATTACH] |
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