Best batting for baby quilt - polyester or cotton
Ooh, a religious issue!
My own preference is always natural fiber. Cotton breathes, it shrinks up
and makes a lovely textured surface, drapes well, and it's a lot easier to
machine quilt, if that's your plan. Assuming your fabrics are also cotton,
why not stick with a good thing? And there's the fire safety issue, not that
your friend will ever suffer a fire. Polyester melts and sticks, cotton
needs a much higher temperature before it will burn.
Sounds like a really pretty quilt!
Roberta in D
"Tutu Haynes-Smart" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi all
I really need your help here - I am out of my depth. Very good friend has
just become a grandmother and asked me to make a baby quilt for her new
grandson. Now, babies - let alone baby quilts - are not my favourite
things - so I am swimming in deep water vbg.
I have made what is probably a totally unsuitable top (hoffman panel with
bears and ducks and other stuff) and made it a bit larger with a final
border of scrapy four patches. The back is my interpretation of a baby
quilt 12 x 14 3" rail fence blocks in barn-raising layout in shades of
blue yellow and turqoise with a large turqoise border around the outside
to make is the same size (more or less) as the front.
Now to my question:
Is cotton or poly batt better - and why?
I have both and don't quite know what to do next. The quilt will be used
in England if temparatures make a difference.
Help ....
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Cheers for now
Tutu
Cape Town, South Africa
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