Thanks to BPL for being a wealth of knowledge and also to Kevin D. for his great in depth video tutorial, as well as Jamie Shortt for his detailed pdf instructional.
Materials:
Momentum 50 (black)
7 ounces 850 fp down
Gutterman 100% poly thread
Noseeum mesh (for baffles)
18" ykk zipper
Shock cord + toggles
Grograin loops
I just got back from a 2 night trip and was very pleased with this quilt!
Things I learned:
– Always do a test first on scrap, whether it be you are changing your stitch length or whatever
– Sew once and get it right, you don't want to have to remove stitches and redo it, especially with lightweight fabric such as this, as you will get holes that you now have to deal with or down will leak
-When sewing always be mindful of your layers, its super easy to get a corner folded over and stitch your quilt together where you were not intending to, there is about a 10 inch strip of scotch tape on the inside to seal off stitch holes where I did this
– If you are going to be packing the down by hand, wear a dust mask
-Don't shy away from baffles and doing the design you want to do, if you go about it methodically it isn't too hard to do
General thoughts:
-Momentum 50 in black isn't really black, it's more of a dark blue
-For a quilt of this size (for an average sized man), 7 ounces of down would be the minimum down worth doing in my opinion, my next one I am going to do 9
-A zippered footbox is nice and really makes the quilt more versatile
-It's good to have a strap right above the zipper to keep it from wanting to separate
