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Quilt batting
It may not be easy to find a lot of information about quilt batting, but if you know at least a little bit, you will be able to make much better informed decisions.
Basically, there are three types of batts that are available for sale and use. These three types are cotton, polyester, and wool. While these are three very different kinds of batts, the truth is that they are not really all that different when it comes to the processes that are employed to produce the batts.
One of the more interesting ways in which batts are processed is through the needle punch method. This is a popular method and tends to work quite well. Basically, the fibers of these batts mesh together after being smashed with hundreds of needles.
One of the problems with quilt batting that you must be on the lookout for is called bearing. Basically, bearding happens when the fibers from the batting tend to come out of the quilt. This may happen with cotton batts, but it tends to be much more prevalent in the polyester and wool batts.
If you use a cotton batt and you want for it to shrink, you need to remember that the cotton fibers need to be bleached. If they are not, the shrinking – and the tightening – may not occur as you expected it to.
There may be a lot about quilt batting that needs to be learned, but if you remember to work with cotton, polyester, and wool then you are already on the right track.
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