Best batting for baby quilt - polyester or cotton

Howdy!

Cotton. Or a mostly-cotton blend.
The batting in that tiny quilt I sent you is Hobbs Heirloom (of course g):
http://www.hobbsbondedfibers.com/quilters.html
and look what a happy little quilt that made. ;-D

Good luck, Tutu! The quilt top & back sound just fine.

R/Sandy--I like babies...on toast


On 8/26/07 10:02 AM, in article , "Roberta Zollner"
wrote:

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