Pin holes in down bag

Get some clear Tenacious tape and cut a circular patch.

Did you buy it new? Does it have the “shiftless” baffles (vertical along the body) that EE switched to about 3 years ago, or is it an older model with the Karo baffles?

Someone here advised me to use colored tenacious tape because it’s softer, clear is pretty stiff.

A very light touch of seam grip is what i use for down jackets

make sure you let it dry for a few days at minimum

most commercial sleeping bags arent 10D

sometimes you trade durability for weight

theres also been threads on BPL and reddit of some folks having down not distributing very well in both horizontal and vertical baffles with quilts…. Commerical bags with vertical baffles have flow gates

Its also possible that your down is durty and not lofting welL

;)

If the holes are tiny they are probably from feathers with spines. Normally our down has very few of these but it can happen. If you rub the hole between your fingers many times you can get the fibers to move back together (because the spine pushed them apart, but didn’t rip anything). I have been doing this on bags long before I ever made one and it works pretty well. Any feathers that poke out should be pulled back in and the hole rubbed.

Any down in any baffle can move from stuffing/unstuffing. Normally it can be resolved with a few shakes of the quilt or pats sending down in the right direction.

-Tim