Adding down to a quilt

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"have any of you added down to your quilt/sleeping bag at home?"
I did that not having much of an idea of what I was doing and with (from 0 to 100) -13 sewing skills.
First I shook the down to one side of the quilt.
Then I sealed myself inside a single wall fully enclosed shelter and carefully opened a baffle at a time cutting the stitching with a blade and stuffed some down inside, then folded the edge in a bit (like with a roll top*) and put some clothes pegs there.
Once finished that I had of course hundreds of little down things flying about inside the tent but managed to capture a good part and shoved them in.
Some can still be seen floating around Port Melbourne even now.
I then removed the pegs one baffle at the time carefully keeping the edge folded over and used a stitch called " whatever the stupid sewing machine is set with" because the hieroglyphics displayed on it did not mean anything at all to me.
I jammed that stupid contraption just before the last two baffle so I finished those by hand.
The only way you can tell those were done by hand is if you look.
Anyway it worked somehow.
* Pro sewers call this technique "oh dear…. "

" Pro sewers call this technique "oh dear…. " "

I thought that the sewer is what you see after you've been circling the drain.

–B.G.–

You do have a point there.
I did go around in circles making it and felt drained at the end of the project.

To avoid the ambiguity, I think the modern term for a person who performs sewing is a -Sewist-. It's either that, or else a Fabric Component Assembly Specialist.

–B.G.–

Bob,
You are a funny fellow.
Your are so wrapped up in your self righteousness that you can't tell when you make an ass of yourself.
I mean that in the nicest possible way.
BTW,
It will escape you, but there is a strong ironical element in your suggestion , to avoid ambiguity, to replace the correct term "sewer" with "Fabric Component Assembly Specialist" or even with the made up word "sewist" (sewing artist).

Franco, I was just trying to be helpful with modern terminology. You are welcome to use old ambiguous terminology if you like.

–B.G.–

The EXACT thing you're looking for….

http://heberhiking.blogspot.com/2010/11/enhancing-golite-ultra-20.html

I have wanted to do this for some time but I'm more initmidated than I should be!

Use a seam ripper to remove existing stitching. Much easier and less chance of cutting the fabric.