Batting for T-Shirt Quilt
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Every T-shirt quilt top I have made was extremely heavy. I always opted for Poly batting as it is very lightweight and durable and dries fast. The t-shirt material takes so long to dry add to that a cotton batting and backing you are talking one very heavy quilt, especially when trying to pull it out of the washing machine. Assuming of course this is a queen size. Maybe a lap size T-shirt quilt would not be so heavy.
#6
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I like Quilters Dream batting of all types. Have used their polyester "request" weight, which I believe is their lightest batting, in a flannel rag quilt. I wanted the quilt to be really warm and yet dry easily since it was to be used outdoors at soccer games. Worked well, according to my DD. Plus the QD polyester batting really feels nice to work with. Some other brands poly, I just really don't like the feel.
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As Suern3 posted, Quilters Dream Poly is very nice. It feels very much like Hobbs 80/20 in density and drape. I also use Hobbs Poly down quite a bit. It is more lofty than the Quilters Dream. Hobbs takes use and several washings to soften up to a nice drape and quilts very flat when densely quilted. I like both equally but tend to use more Hobbs polydown than Quilters Dream.
Edited to add, here are links to several quilts I have done using Hobbs Polydown, although none of these are T-shirt quilts it should give you an idea of how they look quilted up.
"East Meets Midwest" an Asian scrappy quilt
Retirement quilt for a coworker
4 Patch Posy quilting
"Bali Cats" pieced and quilted by feline fanatic
Edited to add, here are links to several quilts I have done using Hobbs Polydown, although none of these are T-shirt quilts it should give you an idea of how they look quilted up.
"East Meets Midwest" an Asian scrappy quilt
Retirement quilt for a coworker
4 Patch Posy quilting
"Bali Cats" pieced and quilted by feline fanatic
Last edited by feline fanatic; 04-19-2019 at 03:50 AM.
#9
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 490
When I made one, I did not use batting. I used fleece for backing and it took the place of the batting, also. If you use it, use a walking foot and do a lot of basting, because fleece tends to stretch.
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