Hey folks, I just finished making an underquilt and I'm getting boatloads of down leakage, obviously I chose too lightweight of a material. Do I have any options to remediate OTHER than making a new quilt? For instance, would treating the fabric with a DWR "seal" the holes between the threads in the fabric?
Can I encapsulate the quilt into something else, like sandwiching/quilting it into 1 or 2 layers of climashield to make a hybrid UQ? Thoughts?
Any pictures? What type of down did you use? Just made this little pillow. I used a 75/25 down/feather fill and I haven't had hardly and leakage.
You're among friends, I did the same, sorry to tell you this but I think it's a rebuild. Its it's just a few of millions it's fine but significant loss gets really irritating.
Did you use a down proof fabric ?
I am still 18 but with 52 years of experience !
That is the most important question..Originally Posted by gunner76
Tough break. What fabric and down did you use? A downproof fabric is one that has been calendered - run over a hot roller to fuse the fibers together, usually on one side. The calendered side usually has a shinier finish to it than the raw fabric side and is used on the inside of the quilt. Thin downproof fabric can still leak feathers but should not leak down. That leads to the second part of my question - the down quality. All down contains some percentage of pointier sharper bits. Lower quality down (lower fillpower) contains a higher percentage than higher quality down. You can expect to see some leakage of those sharper bits through thin fabric, even when calendered. I rarely see a leak of 800FP down through 0.9oz argon. With a heavier fabric I'd see even less, but that would be defeating the purpose of lightweight fabric.
The good news - assuming that your down is of reasonable quality (and not 30% feathers), the bits that are leaking are probably the bits you didn't really want to keep anyway. The question is whether the leakage continues and is bad enough that you can't live with it.
Hey folks, thanks for the responses, I didn't realize that there were so many. I think I'm going to have to take a look at genixia's suggestions when I get back home to see if there's a match. It's not a high quality down, I had recovered down from a jacket I found at goodwill (I think it's more ethical to recycle if possible), and so it's probably 600 or similar. Perhaps what I'll do is stitch in some quilting lines across my baffles to keep the down from shifting as much, and see if it stabilizes from that.
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