under quilts and top quilts

**machineman** · 09-01-2015, 23:24

Just finished 2 underquilts and 2 top quilts. I was going for 30 deg quilts but due to some miscalculating and other factors ended up with 18-20 deg quilts. I used some fabric I picked up at Handcocks fabrics. I found it in the sale section for 90% off, or 54 cents a yard. I bought all of it, about 20 yds. Its a light weight nylon, appears to have a DWR coating on one side, not rip stop. I think its about 1.1 oz/yd. The down came from costco pillows. 600 fill power. Funny thing was I bought 3 pillows and one was not down, strange. I returned it all cut open with no problems, and got a new one. The tags on the pillows say guaranteed 75% down but I think they were better than that. I saw only a few feathers. Anyway for $40 each king sized I couldn't go wrong. They ended up about 25 oz each. That is a 12' hammock not a short quilt. THe quilts are both 74".
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**Floridahanger** · 09-01-2015, 23:51

Great job. Stuff it and remove from stuff sack a few times to see if you have any leakage with the mystery fabric. Now you can be warm in most conditions where you live.

**V_Allen** · 09-02-2015, 05:51

Very nice work!

**boulderv7** · 09-02-2015, 06:03

Those look great. Very nice color combo. You must be proud!! I would be.

**Scotty Von Porkchop** · 09-02-2015, 06:32

They're awesome, love the colour combo. I'm always more impressed with the bargain bucket quilts than some fancy 900fp job,yours are great.

**ksbcrocks** · 09-02-2015, 06:43

Nice projects. I hope the fabric holds the down fine!

**PreciousPixie** · 09-02-2015, 06:57

Really nice, the underquilt looks very professional! I wish that I had the patience, but me and a sewing machine don't see eye to eye!

**machineman** · 09-04-2015, 17:39

I have fiddled with them a little a few feathers have come out but not bad. I think my total cost for all the these was about $150. This was mostly because the fabric was 54c per yard. Total score there. I like the colors also, which is good because I didnt have a choice. This was all they had. The hard part about this project was keeping the fabric from shredding on the edges. I did the underquilts first then I used a modified soldering iron as a hot knife on the top quilts. This was a huge improvement.