It produces less lint than cotton does. If you quilt with cotton, your bobbin gets all full of lint. You have to keep cleaning it out. The bamboo has a longer fiber. There are fewer ends that break off during the sewing process and form lint that can clog your bobbin. That’s a nice side effect we hadn’t anticipated. It’s a very positive characteristic.
Bamboo batting has a surprising loft. When you think of cotton, you think of it as being thin and flat. When you quilt with it, you don’t get a lot of relief. Bamboo has a little more loft for more definition, the same definition you might get through thread painting or heavy quilting. You get that relief you might want in the artistry of your quilt.
Those are the things we think set bamboo apart from some of the other things on the market today.
Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren
www.How-to-Quilt.com
