Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Trouble with Batting

I picked up some new-to-me batting types at Remnants this week. 


As I was digging through my batting stash to make these little baby quilts this week, I was really disappointed with some of the pre-packaged batting I was pulling out. Have you ever pulled out some pre-packaged batting and seen something like this?


Come on. I can fit my head through there. Not that I'm planning on running around town in a batting poncho ;-) I'm just saying it's a ridiculously big hole. How does something like that get past quality control?

I would've graduated to better quality batting sooner, but I stocked up at Jo-Ann's or Hancock's early in my quilting adventures last year. I'm excited to make some baby quilts out of these three sections of batting, though, to see how I like it. Jessica at Remnants was able to tell me which was which, and luckily it's easy to tell them apart. There's a Warm & Natural, Hobbs Heirloom Natural, and a Hobbs Heirloom Bleached.


I'd love to use that 50% Jo-Ann's coupon today to stock up on a fat bolt of queen-sized Warm & Natural for $225 instead of $450, but yowza. That's a lot to shell out at once. It does dollar out nicely at the 50% off price, though. If you get 20 queen-sized quilts out of that roll, then it's only $11.25 for batting for each of those quilts. Sounds good to me :-)

I'd love to hear about your thoughts on batting and deals you've seen.

Happy Crafting!

5 comments:

  1. Can only get the high-loft polyester batting here, so very envious of your purchases. You need to think of the $225 as an investment :)

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  2. Ouch! We can only buy randoms off the bolt or order prepackaged online at extortionate prices here (they don't do coupons...) but at the quilt show I was able to pick up 120" wide batting at £10/$15 per metre, (about 40") so I was quite chuffed with that...

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  3. I've always purchased Warm and Natural or Warm and White at Joann's with the 50% off coupon. When I have the 50% off coupon, I'll usually get enough for at least four quilts, which generally covers me until the next 50% off coupon arrives!

    However, I have HEARD that the Warm and Natural/Warm and White available at Joann's is not as good quality as the Warm and Natural available at quilting stores. Same with Pellon's new batting. I don't know whether that's true, but I've never had a quality issue with Warm and Natural from Joann's. So I'm going to keep buying it from there until I DO run into a problem!

    The Pellon cotton batting I picked up at Joann's did have some odd mustard-yellow flecks in it. I wasn't happy about that, since it could show through white fabric. Other than that, the Pellon batting at Joann's seemed okay too, but I'm sticking with Warm and Natural for now.

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  4. Holy mackerel! I've never had a hole in my batting. That is CRAZY!!! I use Quilter's Dream mostly.

    I rarely shop at the big box stores for quilting supplies anymore. Too inconsistent in quality. And I like to support local business whenever I can.

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  5. What a crazy quality issue. Could you e-mail the company to see if maybe they'll help you out? I've seen some do good things like that before, particularly if you say that you're a blogger. ;)

    I tend to buy the rolls at Joann, like you, when I have a good coupon (either 50% off, or one of the 15/20% off everything and the batting's also on sale). I'd love to say I could justify getting a whole roll like that, but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately!) I just don't have the storage space for a whole roll at this point!

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