sunnyhope

where can you get this stuff and how does it look like??

BellaBoo

I'd be afraid to use it in a baby or child's quilt. If it did catch on fire wouldn't it be like melted plastic? not counting the fumes it would put out. I think many recycled products have bad side effects. :? I think I'll stick with Warm and Natural cotton.

katier825

I haven't tried it yet, but it does look interesting. Here's a link to a place you can get free samples. http://www.hickoryhillquilts.com/dre...en-batting.htm

katier825

You do bring up a good point. I think I would have to research it before using it for a child. Quilters Dream also makes a fire retardant batting, here's the link for that one. http://www.hickoryhillquilts.com/dre...el-batting.htm

sewjoyce

Batting from plastic coke bottles -- what will they think of next? :shock:

3incollege

I have used the green batting and I really like it.
It quited so wonderful.
I washed the quilt and it turned out very soft. Will try to use it again, just hope more shops start to carry it. I don't know about the flame retarant but I use dream angel for childrens quilts.

Debra Mc

I think I saw this at Hancocks.

crashnquilt

I have only seen it from Quilter's Dream. I used it and LOVE IT. The batting seemed to be more even in texture, did not have any bearding or lint from it in my machine.

It is less flammable than polyester or cotton batting. Where I live, we can burn trash. Whenever I need to make sure to get a good fire going I get my trash bin from my quilting. That goes up FAST and burns a long time.

When we got the recycle batting we did a burn test. When the recycle batting burns the "waste" is a very fine ash. There are some minute hard particles in the ash but it did burn MUCH slower than polyester, cotton/poly blend or cotton batting.

Lacelady

That is really interesting - I wonder how they have done that? It makes it more 'useable' doesn't it?

Knot Sew

Inow you can't iron it and not sure about drying
They don't want you to use plastic in the mirowave....no one overlooks this much, because its not food. I will have to know a bit more before i use it
:D