Under Quilt

great work! I too like the hammock gear down. I also use lines on the quilt to save from pinning baffles, i use quilter's pencil on my nylons since it makes a very visible mark that doesn't penetrate the fabric like a sharpie does(can't use sharpie on the black i use anyway) I use BIC pens on cuben then sew over the line making it disappear.

-Tim

Looks good Chris. Yep, the BWDD olive 1.1 cant be beat for the price, nor the hammockgear down.

Javan,
A special thanks to you for your suggestions, and advice.

As soon as I can afford to order more material I am going to have to make a down top quilt.

Thanks to everyone here at BPL, I value and appreciate your opinions. The wealth of knowledge and experience here have proven priceless…or should I say weightless.

Looks Great Chris! I need to get on to making my top quilt. What method did you use for stuffing the down?

To stuff the down I just put a plastic bucket on my scale, added down to the bucket till I had the amount I needed, then just stuffed by hand. Surprisingly I lost a very, very, tiny amount of down. I was smart enough to do this in the garage.

Next time I think I will try to use a vacuum with a tube and mesh so I can suck up the down into the tube, and then push the down out of the tube into the chamber on the quilt. I was too impatient to find the tube for the vacuum.

Finally had a chance to use the underquilt. Wow… way better than a ccf pad. Temps dropped to 38-39deg and I was toasty.

Things I could/should have done differently:

If I would have made it 6" longer, it would cover from just above my shoulders to below my heels. As it is my heels get cold if I am stretched out straight (thankfully I rarely sleep like that) I don't like chasing a ccf pad around.

I think I could easily make it 2-4" narrower and still have plenty of coverage.

Not really complaining, just critiquing.

Didn't get any pictures due to: good fishing…set up camp in the dark… single malt consumed while setting up, and started to rain just as I finished my coffee in the am (didn't have tarp set-up)

Well, I got to thinking…because I should have made it 6" longer, with a little more down and a little less differential between layers. Why not make it into a true 2/3 UQ. This would condense the down, prevent shifting, making it warmer. Heck, I can always make a full length UQ.

So…snip, snip, sew, sew…here you go.
Now it is 48" long(not including the drawcord channels), still with 5oz down, and toasty to mid 30's. I folded my bpl thinlite ccf pad and put it inside the foot of my sleeping bag.