black wool batting

[Betty J.]

I recently used wool batting in a quilt and really liked it. In the course of a year I usually make several black, or very dark, based quilts, so I have been looking for black wool batting, and can't find it anywhere. Do any of you know where I might be able to order it from? I have so far looked at all my usual places...Hancock's of Paducah, equilter, G Street Fabrics, and so on. I think my next quilt will need it, but I could do the white wool bat on top and the black 80/20 bat on the back, since I am planning on double-batting it. I think that will be ok, but would be nice to find black wool batting.

[Betty J.]

I love wool batting and use Quilters Dream brand. Hobbs Legacy Wool is also very nice. The only other wool batting that I know if is Matilda's Own but it is uncommon in the US (made in Austrailia I think). To my knowledge, there is no black wool batting though.

Double batting with the black 80/20 or with QD Midnight Poly and using the wool on top would be lovely.

[Betty J.]

Thanks Michelle. I think it must not be available.

[Betty J.]

Unless you know someone with black sheep and you card out your own, like they used to do it, back in the day :wink:

[Betty J.]

Rosemary, I can't think of a single black sheep in the family.... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Betty J.]

Not that you are admitting to anyway :wink:
I guess you lucked out there then.

[Betty J.]

ROFL

[Betty J.]

Or you could try googling spinner's supplies....

[Betty J.]

Well, Rosemary, just for fun I did google spinning supplies. I could easily get hooked on spinning and weaving--another place to spend more money--but I think I'll just use white batting (aka wadding) for my quilts and write to the manufacturers and tell them they need to make a black wool batting. Maybe if we all wrote to them they'd listen. LOL

[wendy w.]

If it's wool could you not dye it. Or what I would do - colour any threads that come through with a sharpie

[Betty J.]

Wendy, I think I will do the colour the threads with markers method. Thanks. Perhaps they won't come through.

[Margo C.]

Please use a Micron Pigma pen or other fabric marker instead of a Sharpie Marker. The ink in those pens has a lot of acid (can't you smell it?) and over time will damage the fabric and thread.

[Norma H.]

Please use a Micron Pigma pen or other fabric marker instead of a Sharpie Marker. The ink in those pens has a lot of acid (can't you smell it?) and over time will damage the fabric and thread.

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