A long arm quilter’s experience with Fairfield Natural Cotton Quilt Batting

I was excited to quilt Claire Haillot’s quilt for the Spectrum QAL 2020. She had chosen Fairfield Natural Cotton Quilt Batting, renamed as FAIRFIELD Toasty Cotton^TM Natural Cotton Quilt Batting, and I noted the batting came in a bag. I tend to be a bit suspicious of packaged batting; batting squeezed that tightly into a small plastic bag tends to get stretched and can cause big problems on a long arm quilting machine.

However, I noticed this batting had loads of room in the bag. Ahh, this is a good sign!

Fairfield Natural Cotton Quilt Batting

It’s a medium-sized batting at 72″ x 90″. The batting is designed for machine quilting, and because it has a thin synthetic scrim (like interfacing) added to help hold the batting fibers together, your quilting can be up to as much as 8″ apart without any negative effect.

When I took the batting out of the bag and rolled it out on the floor, it was just slightly wrinkled. There was no need to put this one in the dryer. I loaded it right onto the long arm machine, and it quilted up like a dream. I loved working with the Fairfield Natural Cotton Quilt Batting.

The batting with minimal amounts of wrinkling

Note from the editor

Fairfield Natural Cotton Quilt Batting was renamed as FAIRFIELD Toasty Cotton™ Natural Cotton Quilt Batting. Toasty Cotton^TM is the perfect 100% natural cotton quilt batting for all your quilts and crafts. You will get the same strength and warmth you expect from similar battings at a very affordable price. You can use it to create everyday quilts and crafts or award-winning masterpieces with confidence. Needlepunched with a slight synthetic scrim for strength. Ideal batting for clothing.

Toasty CottonTM was used for Claire Haillot’s Spectrum QAL quilted bed runner

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