Down: where are the deals hiding?

[slowhike]

if i can get myself in gear & start doing some of the stuff that i have in mind, i hope to make one w/ a collar on it.
http://www.hammockforums.net/gallery...5/PB120142.JPG
the collar would simply be drawn shut when it is being used as a quilt.

[Peter_pan]

I just ordered and received some down from Feather Industries in Canada. Their price for 800 fill is $73/lb. But if you only order the minimum you have to pay a premium price of $86.50/lb for 2 pounds. And it cost about $40 to get it shipped to Florida.

Shhh. Don't tell the Jacks, but I'm making my own Sniveller with 3" baffles. I just finished sewing in all the baffles. Next is to sew one side and the 2 ends and I'll be ready to start stuffing. I'll be ready to stuff it after tonight but I may have to wait until Christmas so I can officially receive my gift box of 2 lbs. down.

stoikurt, et al.

The No Sniveller with 3 inch baffles is call a Rocky Mountain Sniveller.... It was field tested by francis Tapon on his successful, first ever, CDT YOYO this year, 2007.... BTW, Francis did this hike SUL, under 5 pound base with 26 oz of that base being this JRB quilt and the JRB Hood.

You can find the details of the JRB Rocky Mountain Sniveller Here... http://www.jacksrbetter.com/index_files/RMS.htm

Let us know how yours turns out....There are a lot of these under christmas trees this year.

Pan

[stoikurt]

Thanks, Pan.
Of course what I am making is not a "Rocky Mountain Sniveller" or a "No Sniveller". It is a Hammock Underquilt / Cold Weather Poncho for my own use. Semanitcs, I guess, but I mean to take nothing away from your fine products. After all I do own a JRB Nest.

[NCPatrick]

It wasn't really that difficult once I figured out a good solution. I'll try to do a quick sketch to show the idea. And I should probably move it to a new thread.

I'm looking forward to it. I'm trying to make a down quilt by the end of Jan. (Winter Hangout).

[stoikurt]

I wanted to move this idea to it's own thread since I was getting off topic of this thread. So I wrote up my tutorial for making a hammock quilt with a head hole like the Sniveller line. It's here.