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    Climashield Underquilt for Daughter

    My 9-yo has expressed an interest in joining me in hammock camping and I have an ENO DN available, so I thought I would get started on the other things she will need beginning with an UQ. For economic and durability reasons I decided to go with 5oz CS and HyperD 1.0, and hope this gets her to the 40's if not a little lower. This was my first CS quilt and I just want to say that for anyone sitting on the fix, just go for it. It's a really straightforward and forgiving style of quilt, and much easier than down. I made winter down quilts which I love, but I'll probably make a set of CS summer quilts for myself. My daughter picked out blaze orange and grey, quilt is 64x44 and weights 20 oz with suspension. I also made her a basic silpoly stuffsack.

    I didn't document the construction method as I didn't do anything revolutionary. Plan your quilt, cut your fabric, make a sandwich of CS -> liner -> channels -> shell and start stitching, turn inside out, finish stitching. Add suspension. Go camping.

    Here is the finished product - one extra step I took was to cut the shell 2" larger so that I could box the corners and have a 1" differential in the height of the shell as the 5oz CS is supposed to loft 1.2". I thought this turned out really well, and perhaps you can see how the CS and shell sits on top of the liner fully lofted.



    Here's a corner and suspension, I added grosgrain to help take some load off of the HyperD 1.0 channels (my down UQ uses MOMENTUM 10 channels and is holding up great). The top cordlock is the secondary suspension which is larksheaded to a mittenhook and cordlocked on each corner for independent adjustment. The bottom cordlock is the endchannel cincher. The shockcord without a cordlock is the primary suspension which runs down the long channels and through the mittenhook. I'll see how I like this and once it's dialed in I'll see if I can simplify.



    Here's a wider view of the suspension - the cordlock to the right is where the primary suspension comes back together so that it is adjustable.



    Here's a detail of the mittenhook. I think it'll hold up, but if it doesn't it will get replaced with small, metal s-biners from NiteIze which is what I use on my UQ. The larkshead is to keep the secondary suspension independent on each corner, and the primary just passes through unmolested.



    Here's a detail of the underside of a corner - I really like how flat the liner is, in a plane with the channels. Boxing the ends of the shell was really straightforward and quick.



    Hopefully this added some useful information for anybody thinking about a CS UQ. It was my first time working with that product and I was impressed.
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    Fantastic. Looks professional.

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    Looks great. I once did a DIY climashield quilt but I had a heck of a time keeping the CS straight while sewing it onto the shell because the CS kept lofting so much. Did you use any tricks in particular or did you just pin it down every couple inches?
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    Can you elaborate on the boxed corner? That thing is magnificent.
    Look up before you hook up!!
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    Thanks, BanjoPicker!

    Quote Originally Posted by Bl@ckbird View Post
    Looks great. I once did a DIY climashield quilt but I had a heck of a time keeping the CS straight while sewing it onto the shell because the CS kept lofting so much. Did you use any tricks in particular or did you just pin it down every couple inches?
    A few notes on this:

    1. I pinned every 4" or so, much more than I typically do.
    2. I left the CS oversized by 2-3" and did a final trim after I had sewn the perimeter (except for the "reverse" slot which was 14", 10-12" would have worked).
    3. I increased the pressure on my foot substantially. It is normally set to 1 (the lightest) for hemming ripstop, but I wound up turning it up to 4 (out of 6). Prior to that, the CS was going everywhere and my stitches were shorter than they should have been.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TFC Rick View Post
    Can you elaborate on the boxed corner? That thing is magnificent.
    I didn't take pictures, but let me snap a picture in a bit of the paper model I made which should explain it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TFC Rick View Post
    Can you elaborate on the boxed corner? That thing is magnificent.
    Here is the paper template I created as a proof of concept. Basically, you mark the shell 1.5" in from the edge (assuming a 1" tall shell + 0.5" seam allowance) all the way to the edges of the fabric, then mark the diagonal in the corners. Bring those lines together, folding on the diagonal, and stitch the lines together on the wrong side of the fabric. Trim the little triangle that is left over, then join to the liner as usual using a 0.5" seam allowance from the edge. Hope that makes sense and the picture helps.

    UQ Template.jpg
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    Ah! Awesome thank you. And you did that on both sides or just one?

    EDIT: Might help if I read. Thanks again.
    Look up before you hook up!!
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    Fine looking quilt, Caminante. Well thought out.

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    Looks awesome .

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