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Once again TQS members came through and offered loads of advice and thoughts about batting.  Here's what they had to say.  

If you have the money, wool batting seems to be the way to go.  Comments about wool include:

"The wool drapes beautifully, has a nice loft that shows off my quilting, and is light weight. It also keeps us warm in the winter but it breathes in the summer!"

"It quilts well, doesn't hold creases and has great thermal properties on the bed. My idea of heaven."

"I am looooving wool batting."

"I mostly have used warm and natural but I recently discovered wool and I love love love it! I did our kingsize quilt for our bedroom with the wool and it's so lightweight, but not overly warm at night."

"Then I learned more about wool batting when I took a workshop in machine quilting from Dianne Gaudynski. She uses wool quite a lot. I found it to be just as nice for machine quilting. The thing I like about wool is that it doesn't get so stiff when you use a lot of machine quilting."

For cotton batting, Warm & Natural, Warm & White, and Quilter's dream appear to be the winners.  For hand quilting, most members preferred a poly-cotton blend.

Bamboo batting intrigues a number of you.  There seems to be a debate about shrinkage with this type of batting.  If you are concerned, you might pre-wash the bamboo batting before using.

Many users, however, do not pre-wash any of their battings as a general rule.

Other batting tips included:

"It is recommended that you use a white batting when you have a white fabric in your quilt top, I found that the printed design on a white on white did not show up with a white batt so I used the natural colored batt instead. I could see the print better and the white still looked white, although not as bright."

"Well I know what I will never do again and that is buy a polyester batting on sale and then quilt it on to a quilt with a lot of dark navy blue fabric. The polyester some how manages to escape the middle and form little balls on the navy blue top. I pick these things off all the time."

To read all of our member's comments, click here.