Ask five quilters which types of quilt batting they use and you will get six opinions, one of them delivered with real heat. Part of the disagreement is taste. Part of it is that cotton, wool, bamboo, and polyester batting genuinely behave differently under a needle, in a dryer, and on a bed fifteen years ... Read more
The best thread for machine quilting isn't a single spool. It is a small kit built around what you are doing: piecing your blocks, quilting the top, or filling the bobbin. A quilt that skips stitches, breaks thread constantly, or comes out stiff after washing usually traces back to a mismatched thread-and-needle combination rather than ... Read more
The best batting for baby quilts is not the same as what works for a queen-size bed quilt. A baby quilt only needs to survive spit-up, a few hundred washes, and a lot of dragging around the house. It doesn't need the same heavy batting you would use in a bed quilt meant to hold ... Read more