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    DIY Down Quilt Pics, Article Suggestions Needed

    I finished my DIY down quilt. . It is definitly the hardest thing I made so far, but not so hard that I think someone new to sewing can't make. I only been sewing for the last year, with projects actually turning out the last 6 months.

    Below are some pics. I hung it on the hammock today, but forgot to take any pics of it. It is really warm. It came out to 3.5" of loft and 23oz. It is only 72" long (don't ask), I still need to add 6" of length to it. I cut out the materials and figured that with down would add about 2.5 oz.

    I used Mom90 and nanoseeum from thru-hiker, and 750 fill down from featherind.









    My questions are this for everyone. There is not any good directions out there that I could find. Some come close, but are hard to follow. I want to put together a really easy to follow article for this site. I took plenty of pics as I was going. I am also going to make another one soon and can add pics of that one.

    Things in the article so far:

    Planning
    Where to order materials
    My take on length needed
    Calculating shell material sizes with seams
    Calculating baffle material size for a given loft
    Calculating overstuff
    Calculating amount of down needed
    Baffle length

    Construction
    Measuring and cutting
    Sewing baffles
    Sewing edge seams
    Stuffing down
    Finished edge seams to hold in down
    Adding drawstrings
    Adding omni tape for foot box

    I am sure I am missing something. Please post anything you would like to see added. Others here that I made a one, feel free to add your suggestions.

    I am sure my construction methods are not the easiest for everyone. But they made sense to me.
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    Looking forward to seeing the directions. I will be making my quilt in a couple months.

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    Looks great HE. I can't wait to start on mine.
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    Looks great. Do you know html? This kind of article with pics might turn out better using html than by posting it in the message board format. We can still host html pages here on HF. Up to you.

    Great idea for the article, though.
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    Looks good. One of these is in my future DIY list.
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    Jeff my html is iffy at best. It has been 8 or 9 years since I messed with it. If you or someone else is willing I can type it up in word with places to add jpeg pics and they could convert it into html. I want to make it as useful as possible, so I am up for it with some help.

    An update on the time frame. It is probibly going to take me over a week to get this up. My school work just increased, and I am taking off next weekend for a 3 day canoe trip. Plus I want to get my next quilt done for my trip next weekend.
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    Hammock Engineer,

    The quilt looks great. I have been gathering information form several sources and home to make one of my own in early summer. There is one area I am hoping you can provide some advice on in your article. Dividing the down eqally between the chambers sound like an oppertunity for me to end up with 25% of my down floating throughout my house. It seems that "by weight" would be the way to go - but I have never worked with down before. Any tips would be greatly appreciated and my help maintain domestic harmony if I can reduce the amount of down "drifiting" around the house.

    Maybe I'll run into you one of these days at Shawnee or one of the other "close to" Cincy trials.


    I'd also like to give a general thanks to all who have shared DIY info on this forum - has saved me countless hours of trial and error.

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    Nice project HE!
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    Welcome packstrapped. Looks like you and HE are in the same place. I'm sure he would be glad to get with sometime to help or just compare and talk DIY.
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    HE - I'd be happy to help with the html. Coding it should be pretty easy after you type it up.

    Packstrapped - by weight is the easiest way, IMO. You can weigh a container of down, then subtract what you need for your next chamber from the total. Vacuum out the down until you hit your target weight. Here's how I vacuum the down.
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