Why No Verticle Baffle Quilts?

GooseFeet's quilts use vertical baffles. I have about a dozen nights with mine – so far so good! I find the down shifts when stuffing it away but stays in place overnight just fine.

"Tim at EE reduced his baffle spacing because of complaints of down shifting"

My theory is your baffle spacing should be twice the loft. If it's more you'll get more unwanted down shifting. Of course it also depends on the amount of over-stuff, but I think that reduces you're efficiency a little.

I haven't heard anyone else's opinion though.

I noticed the same down shifting problem. There have been a few times when I have been woken up in the middle of the night because my toes or torso are freezing, even when using a quilt with a rating that is well within the temperature outside. The cause has always been due to the down shifting to the sides, leaving large uninsulated cold spots. The quilts have tightly spaced horizontal baffles.

I finally added a few vertical baffles to the toe box of my winter quilt. It solved the problem.

I recently made a quilt with a combination of horizontal and vertical baffles throughout. If you're interested there is a post in the myog forums with more info.

I think the reason quilts with horizontal and vertical baffles, other than Karo quilts (which have a much different baffle system), are not readily available from cottage manufacturers is due to the extensive amount of detail work required to add vertical baffles. I don't think the extra cost would be recovered in the market. I'm just an amateur but it took 4 times longer to make a quilt with horizontal and vertical baffles throughout versus the quilts I've made with just horizontal baffles.

I already talked to Tim about a year ago about making me a vertical bale quilt, he didn't seem interested in it at all. Hopefully someone can make one.

I have beta-tested some bags that use the Insotect Flow system.

Flowhttp://www.insotect.com/insotectflow.php

I don't know that it really works that well. Manufacturers like to believe it does so they can use less down.

Personally I like being able to fine-tune my quilts by adjusting the fill when desired.