Bamboo Batting

There are plenty of batting options available to quilters. My personal favorite is bamboo. It is not actually 100% bamboo but rather a blend of cotton and rayon made from bamboo fibers. It is extremely soft- much like rayon velvet- it is environmentally friendly, and it is naturally anti-microbial. It is also much more expensive than cotton or polyester batting. It is very low loft, but fluffier than a needled cotton batting. When I can, I will use bamboo batting in baby blankets. It also comes in slightly different sizes than a typical batting. They advertize it as "generous baby" which is a 60 x 60 inch piece rather than 45 x 60. I like the "generous" size better than typical batting because I seem to always end up with baby quilts larger than 45 x 60. Here are some quilts I have made with bamboo batting:

Hot air balloons for Abdiel,

Teddy bears for baby girl,

Pinwheels for Landon,

 And Lady in the Lake for baby girl.

I really like working with bamboo batting. It lays out nicely, rarely wrinkling. When machine quilting, I don't have any trouble with the layers getting too think or the needle getting hung up on the fibers. I have not tried hand quilting with bamboo batting, but I have heard from other quilters that it is also very nice.

As for other B-words, batik, bobbin, all types of batting, and bolts of fabric also came to mind. I really could write about any of them, so maybe when the A-Z challenge is up, I'll go back and write about some of the topics I don't cover here.