2 Layer Quilt

I have to wonder…how many snaps will you have to use and how much will they end up weighing? Could they really weigh much less than just using another layer of fabric to make a second full synthetic quilt that can be layered without having to be attached?

Would your quilt wet out with just down and a Momentum outside?

I’ve been using my quilt with M50 on the outside and it doesn’t wet out.  With occasional dew or rain splash.  M50 has a good DWR.  I assume your M90 is the same.  It depends how much water you expose it to.

If you have synthetic and down in the same garment, there’s a problem that the down sort of lasts forever but the synthetic loses it’s loft after a few years.

Cam snaps weigh nothing, (100 weigh maybe an ounce).  Looking at about 15 snaps total.

This would be a quilt designed to use for a thru hike.  You have layering abilities.

Because this quilt is separate, it doesn’t matter if the synthetic degragates.  You can just make another piece.

I like that idea!

I use a 2.5 Apex quilt with my down quilts and it effectively adds warmth and just as important pulls moisture outward out of the down.  This quilt would save weight of another layer of fabric and misc shock cords, velcro etc over a separate quilt- of course with two quilts you have two quilts too :)

Sounds a lot like the quilt i made awhile ago, that i sewed a separate sleeve and some velcro to.  The main quilt was down, and i could add Apex depending on the situation and need.  While i still like the concept, i ended up mostly just using the sleeve to go in when it was windy etc. (so sleeve on the bottom).  Since the sleeve material is M50, works really well at cutting wind, but no problems with condensation with like a bivy that covers both top and bottom.

The main reason I was thinking about going this route was becuase I already have the quilt I’ll be using for it done.

Im not very fond of my 17 ounce  quilt that has NoBul inner. Leaks  1000’s of tiny down pieces on me every night.

Being able to to make the inner the outer would save some leakage. It would add about 7 ounces if I only attached the fabric to the outer edges and trimmed the climashield to 48″.   That would be enough to tuck under my arms.

Only thing  I don’t like about this is its only a 1 ounce savings and the quilt that’s done is sewn. I like a sew quilt but to be a more effective system and be using it in warmer weather, I would much rather have a zipper so it can open up.

I’m thinking 10 ounces of down could also work with this so that would bring it down to 23 ounces.