sewingsuz

I had a heavy quilt like that a long time ago and my Dad stayed over one week end and said it gave him ingrown toe nails it was so heavy. LOL

c joyce

I remember that "heavy feeling" also. My grandmother had used old wool army blankets for the batting and they were all tied. Thanks for the memory!

cassie69emt

You could also try the fusible fleece I think it is called

Suzi

oh yesssssssssss (and the pillow was a feather pillow, wasn't it?)

NJ Quilter

Save yourself - don't use 2 layers of batting! Especially if it's W&N! My very first quilt was a double irish chain lap quilt that I was making for my grandmother. Thought it would be warmer for her if I used 2 layers of batting. I did SID in the 'chains' and flower designs in the plain blocks. The plain blocks weren't too bad with the double layer but the SID was painful with a capital P. But who knew? I did get through it with the help of some needle nosed pliers and she loved it so it was worth it in the end but I really don't know that it made it really that much heavier. Several quilts later my SIL said the one I made for them amazed her at it's warmth with a single layer of W&N. She asked me to make a quilt for my niece as her room is frigid in the winter. I used a single layer of W&N and used flannel for the backing. I swear that child will never move a muscle under that quilt!

Alice Woodhull

I make comforters for a friend. I don't call them quilts as they aren'tquilted. I piece 4-inch squares together, put a blanket in the middle and flannel on the back. I tack them and then bind them with the flannel. It goes fine until I try to bind them and they are so heavy to wrestle around with. I sometimes bring the flannel to the front and stitch down with a decorative stitch. She loves them as they sleep in an unheated bedroom. She wants all I can make for her. I have another friend who cuts all her leftover project fabrics into squares and gives them to me. I have two big boot boxes of squares to get used up. Plus all the squares I cut myself when I finish a project.

NJ Quilter

Try looking at Lands End for the sheet blankets. I purchased one from them a number of years ago and it was the most wonderful blanket in the world. 100% and it was probably the only blanket that has ever fit on my king sized bed. It wasn't cheap - about $100 if I remember correctly but I could actually tuck it under the mattress and still have enough length to get a fold at the head of the bed and it had a drop on the sides to boot. Not sure what happened to it but I'm guessing it was destroyed by one of the dogs. And I decided I wasn't spending that much $$ for something for the dogs to destroy again. Hence the reason I'm not in a hurry to make the Mariner's Compass I want for my bed.

Weenween

I use them all the time.They work out great and you don't have to quilt them really close because they are already pre quilted if you will.

mshollysd

I am working on a wolf quilt for the DH and the 80/20 batting isn't what is heavy, it is the polarfleece I am backing it with in addition to the batting. It is also king size so I have had quilt it in sections. Very heavy but it will be warm on our South Dakota winters/

jbud2

I made a flannel quilt with W& N. The backing was flannel and the top was what I say looks like a brick wall, of flannel. It feels heavier than another quilt I made with just a flannel backing. Must be the flannel.