My costco throw mod

[michgan241]

So after buying 3 costco down throws i wanted to make a 30ish degree UQ and a summer TQ. Long story short is i seamripped the horizontal baffles out of 2 throws, harvested the down from one and put it into the now long sewnthrough baffle of the other. Then i'd seamrip the verticle baffle in order to get that down(suprisingly a lot of down is caught between the stitching. all in all about 4-5 hours work and i still have to add grosgrain/shock cord etc once i get my dutch order.


size is 44X69 inches (i took the outside baffles and distributed the down to the center, thinking i'd still have 50 inches but by increasing the volume of the baffles i shortened it by 6 inches )

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Now im left with 4 baffles by 60 inches which im planning on sewing onto the bottom of my last throw to make a TQ

[GingerR]

Wow! You did it! That's a TON of work, so good for you. I just finished cleaning up my house from the Costco down that has been floating around for the past week. I'm sure I'll be seeing faint somethings out of the corner of my eye for months. How did you keep the mess-factor at a minimum? Did you wet it?

My UQ is 2 layers: 40" x 60" outer layer and 30" x 60" inner layer. Today I found that to be fine in 50 degree weather. I will test it this week for lower temps which we are getting here in the PNW. I wonder if there's a difference between two layers of the purchased throw vs. a single layer with double-down. Let us know your results

[fodder]

Great job. And we're approaching the season to try it out. I'll be interested to see how it does in the colder weather. Standing by for a field report.

[Rain Man]

Thanks for the report. Let me ask, is the baffle stitching still sewn through both sides of the fabric (making a cold strip)? If so, I'm wondering what you might think of just sewing two of the throws together. A little more weight, but I wonder if a lot more warmth.

[michgan241]

Wow! You did it! That's a TON of work, so good for you. I just finished cleaning up my house from the Costco down that has been floating around for the past week. I'm sure I'll be seeing faint somethings out of the corner of my eye for months. How did you keep the mess-factor at a minimum? Did you wet it?

My UQ is 2 layers: 40" x 60" outer layer and 30" x 60" inner layer. Today I found that to be fine in 50 degree weather. I will test it this week for lower temps which we are getting here in the PNW. I wonder if there's a difference between two layers of the purchased throw vs. a single layer with double-down. Let us know your results

I've been studying a lot for exams coming up this week so i'd study for 2 hours work on the quilt for an hour study for 2 hours work on the quilt for an hour. So all in all while it was a decent amount of work by the end it went pretty fast once i got in a groove. No i basically shook all the down into the bottom of the long "baffle" ripped the seam out the slowly and carefully pulled the down from one quilt and put it into a funnel into the other quilt. a little messy but nothing crazy as long as i was careful.

Yea i think i read people had used single layers into the lower 50's and thought it might be ok high 40's if you were a warm sleeper. i'm hopin for mid 30's.. but the baffles are sewn through so it might need an underquilt protector we'll see.

[michgan241]

Thanks for the report. Let me ask, is the baffle stitching still sewn through both sides of the fabric (making a cold strip)? If so, I'm wondering what you might think of just sewing two of the throws together. A little more weight, but I wonder if a lot more warmth.

Yea still sewn through both sides. I'm hoping it will get to mid 30's which outside of deep winter should do me good. If not I might try an underquilt protector and if all that fails i will probably re-harvest the down and try my hand at an actual baffled quilt. I'm not the handiest with a sewing machine so its all a bit of a learning process.

[Levi Tate]

Nice job. Do the stitch holes from the removed thread, seal up? Is the down trying to sneak out of those holes? Thanks.

[brianb]

Nice work, not sure if it was you who was asking, but I read another post where someone mentioned doing something similar. I thought it sounded like too much work for the reward, but looks like you pulled it off without too much trouble. Well done.

Hope it serves you well.

[pinballwizard]

I've been studying a lot for exams coming up this week so i'd study for 2 hours work on the quilt for an hour study for 2 hours work on the quilt for an hour. So all in all while it was a decent amount of work by the end it went pretty fast once i got in a groove. No i basically shook all the down into the bottom of the long "baffle" ripped the seam out the slowly and carefully pulled the down from one quilt and put it into a funnel into the other quilt. a little messy but nothing crazy as long as i was careful.

Yea i think i read people had used single layers into the lower 50's and thought it might be ok high 40's if you were a warm sleeper. i'm hopin for mid 30's.. but the baffles are sewn through so it might need an underquilt protector we'll see.

Yea still sewn through both sides. I'm hoping it will get to mid 30's which outside of deep winter should do me good. If not I might try an underquilt protector and if all that fails i will probably re-harvest the down and try my hand at an actual baffled quilt. I'm not the handiest with a sewing machine so its all a bit of a learning process.

I think to gingerR's and rainman's point, (unless I am understanding it wrong) that although you are getting more warmth in a single baffle, less weight by having less fabric, and more flowing down... Could it also be a hinderance to have a single layer/double filled quilt, vs a double layered/single filled quilt, because maybe there will be less effect from cold spots due to sewn through baffles with the redundancy of multiple layers. I am just clarifiying what I think their points and questions are, and I am curious about this myself, as I am also playing with these throws... In fact, I was playing with a simple folded over throw making a 60x35 UQ.

Having said all that... This looks awesome and I think that so far, this is the most impressive thing I have seen come out of these coscto quilts

[michgan241]

Nice job. Do the stitch holes from the removed thread, seal up? Is the down trying to sneak out of those holes? Thanks.

initially they hung around, but i threw it into the dryer with some tennis balls to distribute the down and fluff it up a bit and they are more or less sealed. No down was leaking when i pulled it out and just double checked, it looks good.