While checking out a local GoodWill store the other week, I came across a super soft quilt made with really nice tan material all rolled up and thrown on the $2 table with a bunch of blankets and towels. Checked it out as best I could without opening it up, and decided it was worth the $2.
Got it home and realized that it was about 7' square and in perfect condition ( even smelled good!), but was a little flat - unstuffed - in the middle. So I decided the other night to make a TQ out of it so I could narrow it to about 40" wide and use all the stuffing to fill the reduced size. Imagine my surprise when I started cutting and got bombarded by puffs of down!!!SCORE!!! So that's why it felt so nice - I've never worked with real down before, and now I understand the term "downy goodness." After about an hour of transferring down from the cut off side to the keeper side, I sewed the edge back up and closed one end enough to make a footbox of sorts. Sweet!
Sadly though, I never got to try it out. . . While I was cleaning up duck down (all over the shop!) my daughter climbed in the hammock and pulled the TC over her with a big grin on her face. Within minutes she was asleep, snuggled under what I imagine must have been incredibly warm, soft, downy goodness. She spent the night.
Finally last evening, I ran a bag of garbage down to the shop and saw the hammock still there in place (because I'm working on adding some IX layers to my UQ) so I settled in just to see how it felt. Well, my phone rang, and my son says, "Dad! Where'd you go?!? You took the garbage down two hours ago!"
Yeah, it works.
-Klauss
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