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February 3rd, 2013, 02:52 AM
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Jean, I need your help, too!
I remember you saying that you often use a higher loft batting and SITD for your JRR quilts. What kind do you use? I bought some that is "extra high loft poly" because my friend wants her "poufy", not flat like the warm and natural I usually use. The sample they had in the store didn't really look that different. I am afraid to try it - do you have any of your words of wisdom for me?
Thanks!
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February 3rd, 2013, 02:59 AM
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Re: Jean, I need your help, too!
Well, the stuff I use is low loft poly, because I don't want to wrestle with real poofy batting, beccause it is harder to manage to not have tucks in the quilting. Not that I have experience with high loft, I've never used it. I can get the low loft stuff for kids quilts for between $5 and $6 on sale at Hancocks Fabrics, so that is why I use it for the charity quilts. Warm and Natural or white would be more than that. I like the low loft for jelly roll quilts, it gives enough poof and isn't hard to quilt with.
If you are doing SITD for the jelly rolls, I guess it would work OK, I'd just use a walking foot for sure, or if your machine has a built in feed system, that will really help. I never use the spray to sandwich my quilts, I use lots of pins. So I can only tell you what has worked for me. I've used the low loft stuff on the longarm a couple of times, it works fine there also. It is lighter weight but seems just as warm as the warm and natural/white is.
Another good qualiy of poly batting is that it is white. If you are using white in your quilt, it won't darken your whites. I didn't have enough warm and white to do that little quilt for Sally, so I used Hobbs 80/20, which is natural color. It seemed to work out OK, but I'm sure a totally white batting would have worked out better.
Last edited by Jean Sewing Machine; February 3rd, 2013 at 03:02 AM.
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February 3rd, 2013, 03:14 AM
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Re: Jean, I need your help, too!
Thanks! I think I will try a little piece first. It just doesn't seem like it will be that much thicker to me - which I would expect from "Extra high loft". I only have a small machine and am a little worried about getting it through the machine. I pieced the top in two sections that I will join together. I am considering doing it quilt as you go style and joining the two sections after they are quilted.
Thanks again!
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February 3rd, 2013, 03:26 AM
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Re: Jean, I need your help, too!
My quilter told me that when someone request a "high" loft, she uses two layers of low loft. She says it's higher then using the high loft. HTH.
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February 3rd, 2013, 03:33 AM
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Re: Jean, I need your help, too!

Originally Posted by
kensington
My quilter told me that when someone request a "high" loft, she uses two layers of low loft. She says it's higher then using the high loft. HTH.
That's interesting, I might try that some day.