Quilters Dream Poly batting
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Quilters Dream Poly batting
I need to get a black batting and am considering Quilters Dream Poly black. I haven't used a poly batting in years and I've never felt a sample of the Quilters Dream Poly. Does the 505 spray baste work on poly batting? How does the Quilters Dream Poly copare to Hobb's 80/20 or Warm & Natural while quilting? Does it handle as well? I'm using a domestic machine, not a long arm.
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I spray basted a polyester batt for a baby quilt. Polyester batt due to its less compact surface tends to allow more movement within the sandwich then 80/20. I did not care for it and I just did straight line stitching instead of FMQing.
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OK it appears a lot of the responders are thinking the QD poly batting is like Hobbs polydown or your run in the mill poly. It is NOTHING like that!! I did a quilt using it and I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between QD normal poly and Hobbs 80/20. The QD black poly (and also their white) are low loft and handle like Hobbs 80/20 both in needling, weight and hand/feel. As well as slippage. Polydown and like products tend to shift a lot when DM quilting. QD Poly (select loft) and Midnight Poly (which ONLY comes in select loft) do NOT. They actually kind of grab the fabric like 80/20 does. Regular quilters dream poly and midnight poly should not be confused with their product dream puff which is like regular lofty poly like Hobbs Polydown.
I can't answer your question regarding the spray baste as the one time I used it I hand quilted so stitch basted it. But I suspect, given it's hand and it's low loft it would probably behave quite nicely with spray baste or Elmers School glue basting method.
http://www.quiltersdreambatting.com/midnight-dreams.htm
I can't answer your question regarding the spray baste as the one time I used it I hand quilted so stitch basted it. But I suspect, given it's hand and it's low loft it would probably behave quite nicely with spray baste or Elmers School glue basting method.
http://www.quiltersdreambatting.com/midnight-dreams.htm
Last edited by feline fanatic; 03-16-2016 at 05:06 AM.
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Me, also. I just used the poly for the first time and found that spray basting did not "stick" as well with the batting. (I found this when I used a poly mix fabric too.) I'll go back to my never-fail QD Orient from now on.
Last edited by Kitsie; 03-16-2016 at 08:28 AM.
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