Well then, you’ve come to the right place!
Welcome to Wilderness Quilter. In addition to my own quilting adventures, you’ll find MYOG projects my hubby, OffGrid, has talked me into over the past couple of years.
We’ve already made three down quilts and I’ve heard rumblings about a fourth. I ask you, who needs four down quilts? I can easily explain three:
- 3-season backpacking quilt with enclosed footbox
- -10 degree quilt for our car top tent
- Ultralight summer-weight backpacking quilt
But what do you suppose the fourth one is for?
Anyway…
Instead of box baffles in the third quilt, we used a continuous piece of noseeum mesh to create triangular baffles, which we found to be much easier. In addition to the very basic written directions here on WQ, we also uploaded a detailed demo video on YouTube.
And so, if you do want to make a backpacking quilt, I hope this info will help. Happy sewing!