warm & natural vs. dream cotton

Hello everyone

I've finally graduated from poly batting to cotton batting and I will say that I will NEVER go back to poly!!!

I am currently working on a quilt as you go log cabin quilt for my bed; I cut up a king size piece of quilter's dream supreme loft batting into 8x8 squares and I am making those into log cabin squares. I love the feeling of this batting!! It is heavy yet soft, resilient, smooth, in short gorgeous.

The only other cotton batting I have used is a piece of warm and natural that I used to make a lapthrow. It is nice, and soft, and warm and drapes well. But it is so much thinner than the quilter's dream. I would think this makes it harder to cut because it has more of a tendency to fall apart.

So, other than the difference in loft (the supreme quilter's dream is much thicker) is there a lot of difference between these bats?

Quilter's dream is so much harder to buy online (and ship to Spain) than warm and natural which is much more readily available.

Any thoughts on the matter?

Thanks

Claudia

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claudia
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I use warm and natural almost exclusively. I haven't seen quilter's dream, but perhaps I should try it. I generally use poly when I am making baby quilts because of the loft. I love the fluff that poly makes if you get the thick stuff.

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Boca Jan

Have you tried

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in the UK? They shipped batting to me in France, very quickly and at a very, very reasonable rate. I am not affiliated with them, just pleased with their customer service.

Janner

France

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Janner

On the last quilt I had machine quilted, we used Dream Cotton. It has a slightly softer hand. I found, however, that when I washed the quilt, the edges 'rippled' somewhat. I don't think it was my border or binding and it wasn't the quilting. It's just like there wasn't enough 'stuff' to hold the edge as stiff as the interior of the quilt. Warm and Natural from now on.

joan

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joan8904 in Bellevue Nebraska

They're both good batts.

As a quilter, I like the Quilter's Dream better because W&N sometimes has bits of seed in it. Not fun.

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Kathy Applebaum

Quilter's Dream in all the lofts is a bit softer than Warm and Natural. I love both brands for different things. Warm and Natural (or Warm and White, which is bleached but other wise the same) is great, but not as easy to hand quilt through. It has a scrim and will not "fall apart" if you cut it into squares. It does, in my opinion, stay a bit stiffer with a lot of quilting. I have actually made a teddy bear with tea dyed W&N batting as the outside of the bear. It is sewable that way and can be stuffed fairly firmly because of the scrim that is incorporated in it. Love using W&W for my bags and purses, with lots of quilting. Makes them firm but still flexible.

Quilter's Dream is softer to begin with. I haven't used the Supreme loft, but am handquilting my "Dear Jane" quilt with the Request, or thinnest, weight. Very nice to work with. I prefer the lower loft battings for most of my quilts, just because. Have used, will use some poly for some things. But even there I prefer ComfortLoft batting which is a low loft. Use some of the "fatter" battings for trapunto though.

And I have a small project that I just hand quilted with the Tuscany Wool from Hobbs---wonderful. (Yes I will get a pic up when I get it finished. Need to do the binding and the "embellishment" for this little whole cloth number.)

It is fun to try out different batt> Hello everyone

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Pati Cook

Howdy!

Thoughts on this: I should have sent you some Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 during last year's swap.

Ragmop/Sandy

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Sandy Ellison

And those "seeds" can discolor the fabric with little brown spots. I've seen it. I use Quilters Dream almost exclusively (unless my customer brings another brand). I love it and it quilts beautifully.

~~~~~~~ Laurie G. in CA

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Laurie G.

Yep, I'll have to vote for Hobbs in hand-quilting (I don't think the OP mentioned whether or not she machine or hand-quilts - which I think is a critical detail, IMHO) ... haven't tried Quilter's Dream though ... is it new???

I've used W&N and I liked it. Harder to HQ through, though, but worth it. The finished product is always gorgeous ...

Personally, I like the low lofts the best ... they seem, to me, to be the most "retro" and antique-y. To me, they also seem to ... drape nicer, too. :)

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Connie

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