From all I've learned here I will definitely stay away from 100% polyester!
I may try some 80/20 since I already bought both that and the 100% cotton.
Like you I watch for the good sales to stock up on sewing supplies. The
batting I have now is Hobbs and I got it for 50% off at Hobby Lobby a while
back.

Thanks for your help Kim,
Bonnie


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"Kim E" wrote in message
om...
When I first started quilting, I used the polyester stuff. I didn't
realize that the batting was the reason that my backing shifted and
puckered.

After learning about it from this group, I tried Warm & Natural (now I
usually use Warm & White) and was hooked. I have never had a backing
shift and pucker since. It also feels so much nicer than the
polyester.

I buy it 10 yards at a time at JoAnn's when they have all battings 50%
off.

Kim

"muse9" wrote in message
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I am finally making good progress on my very first quilt top! I am
using a
9 patch pattern from an Alex Anderson beginner quilting book. The
piecing
is going well; I'm learning a lot and loving it!!! In fact I find I
have to
stay away from my sewing room unless I know I have the time to sew
because
it seems to magnetically pull me in and keep me for hours at a time!

This pattern is for a 30x30 wall hanging but I am making it for a large
doll
quilt/lap quilt for my DGD. As I get closer to finishing the piecing I
know
I need to think about the batting I will use for this quilt. I've read
so
many conflicting opinions on cotton versus poly or cotton and poly
blends.
I'm sure this question has come up many time before but I am still
fairly
new here and could really use some opinions.

Since this is a doll quilt for a child it will get somewhat rough usage
and
will need to be washed occasionally. I read on the bag that cotton
batting
will shrink - is this a big problem? I also read that if you use cotton
batting you have to quilt fairly close together and since I'm totally
new at
this and don't have much faith in my quilting abilities this concerns
me.
Does one batting hold up better than another? I will be machine
quilting so
is one better than the other for that?

This small quilt is my first "training quilt". I got mentally hooked on
quilting several months ago and have been soaking up whatever
information I
could on the subject. Some of the best information I've received has
been
right here with all of you!

I would greatly appreciate any hints or help regarding batting! Thank
you
all so much!

Bonnie

In article ,
Patti wrote:

Ha!
It's a headache all right! but not in the sense you mean!
The scale of the fabric patterns is wrong; the soluble paper-piecing
paper didn't properly dissolve; I decided to sew it all together before
I took the papers off. I cut the little borders without realising that
the piece I cut them from (which had a straight edge on it) had been cut
on the cross! I even had to re-think my original quilting pattern, when
I realised the foot was obscuring the points I was going to aim for!!
All in all a chapter of accidents. However, since it was pretty
experimental, I'm glad I got all these out of the way in one go!!
I don't think it will merit a picture, unless I decide to put a little
section in about 'those that got away'!!!
.


Ah, but I'd like to see a picture anyway! After all, I've never seen one
made with pieces this small -- you're much braver than I am. :)
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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

OK Sandy!
Now, the binding has gone wrong as well - and it's a rescue job if
possible today! but I'll get DH to take you a picture. (436 pieces!! )
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In article ,
Sandy Foster writes
In article ,
Patti wrote:

Ah, but I'd like to see a picture anyway! After all, I've never seen one
made with pieces this small -- you're much braver than I am. :)

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Best Regards
pat on the hill

In article ,
Patti wrote:

OK Sandy!
Now, the binding has gone wrong as well - and it's a rescue job if
possible today! but I'll get DH to take you a picture. (436 pieces!! )
.

Good luck redoing the binding, Pat! And I'm anxious to see the picture!
g
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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1