What is best quilt batting
Different Types of Quilt Batting
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there are many different types of quilt
batting available either at your local
craft store or even available online and
the type of batting you choose for your
quilts can depend on what type of
culture making an art quilt versus a bed
quilt as well as the climates you're
going to be using that quilt in whether
it's going to be really cold or really
warm and how you want your overall quilt
to look whether you want it to be sort
of stiff and hold its shape or you want
it to drape well on the bed so a couple
of the most common types of batting that
you find at your local craft store or
even at some of the big-box stores is
generally a polyester or polyester blend
batting so that is what this is here
here is just a small piece that I have
left from another project that I did
polyester is very common because it is
one of the least expensive types of
batting is very easy to find and it can
be used in anything from an art quilt or
a craft size project all the way up to a
bed quilt some of the pros of using a
polyester batting again easy to find
inexpensive however it is not breathable
at all so if you are someone who maybe
sleeps and you're always usually warm
when you're sleeping if you are
underneath a quilt that is quilted with
a polyester batting you're probably
gonna find that you are sweating a lot
in the middle of night and it's it's not
going to allow any heat to escape or any
air to breathe through so there are some
benefits to polyester batting but if
that's what you're looking for the
breathability of your quilt polyester is
not something that you want to pick
polyester batting is however something I
absolutely always have on hand
in my sewing room because I use it for
things outside of quilting as well this
is just a little craft size that you can
buy of this polyester batting and I
picked this one just so you can sort of
see this fun little picture down in the
bottom they used it to make a little wig
so this kind of batting can be used for
everything from quilts to just minor
little crafts projects and sort of
everything in between so even if you
don't do a whole lot of quilting with
polyester batting it's always a good
thing to have on hand
also if you're someone who likes to
practice with little stitch outs or
practice your quilting free motion
quilting a new quilting design having
just some inexpensive polyester batting
on hand can be a perfect thing to
practice with another common type of
quilt batting one that can be found at
some crafts and fabric stores as well is
cotton batting cotton batting is one
that comes in a lot of different
thicknesses so you can get it anywhere
from really thin known as low loft to
really thick which is a higher loft this
just happens to be a a smaller size this
is a crib size and you can see by unfold
this here this is a fairly thin lower
loft cotton batting this is something
that has a little bit of breathability
to it definitely more than polyester not
as much as some of the other batting's
we're going to talk about but a good one
for warmth it's also very soft and very
comfortable and it drapes fairly well so
if you have a lower loft cotton batting
in a quilt that's not heavily quilted it
will drape nice over the edge of the bed
and look very nice aside from cotton we
have some other options here this is
silk batting set this aside silk batting
is one of the most breathable types of
batting that you'll be able to find it
is however one of the more expensive
types of batting that you're going to
find and one that isn't as readily
available in fabric stores this is
actually one that I had to order online
but again it's very very soft very
breathable a little bit thicker than
cotton batting so this one happens to be
maybe more of a low to medium loft and
it can be a little bit stiffer so it
doesn't quite drape as nice as some of
the other batting's but again if you
want to make a nice breathable quilt or
a nice lightweight quilt maybe a
summertime bed quilt silk batting is
something that you want to pick some
other options here this next one is wool
batting and if you can't pick out
batting types based off of just glancing
at it and knowing what it looks like you
will
absolutely be able to tell what wool
batting is just by feeling it because if
you've ever worn a scratchy wool sweater
that's kind of what this batting feels
like so it is fairly breathable not as
breathable as silk but much better than
polyester however it is very stiff so
this is a type of batting where if
you're making a project or making a
quilt and you want it to hold its shape
you want to pick a batting such as this
wall batting here one more betting that
I want to talk about which is one of my
favorite batting to actually to feel it
is these softest nicest most luxurious
feeling batting and this is bamboo
batting so it is slightly less expensive
than something like a silk batting and
in terms of breathability is right up
there with silk as well it is something
that is really soft drapes really well
has a very again soft feel to it so it's
more of a low to medium loft though I
believe you can get this in different
thicknesses and so it gives a nice
overall finish to your quilt so this one
if you can find it either in a store you
can find it online and it's in your
budget for the quilting project that
you're using I highly recommend a bamboo
batting so again we have bamboo wool
silk cotton polyester all of these are
good types of batting to use in your
quilt depending on how you want your
quilt to look how breathable you want it
to be and how warm you want it to be and
just how you want your overall quilt to
look so if you have access to very small
amounts of batting you can buy craft
size or even crib size get a little
sample of each of these batting's and
try them out quilt on them see what they
look like once they've been quilted and
get a feel for what your favorite type
of batting is and what you want to use
on your next quilt project
