My 9-yo has expressed an interest in joining me in hammock camping and I have an ENO DN available, so I thought I would get started on the other things she will need beginning with an UQ. For economic and durability reasons I decided to go with 5oz CS and HyperD 1.0, and hope this gets her to the 40's if not a little lower. This was my first CS quilt and I just want to say that for anyone sitting on the fix, just go for it. It's a really straightforward and forgiving style of quilt, and much easier than down. I made winter down quilts which I love, but I'll probably make a set of CS summer quilts for myself. My daughter picked out blaze orange and grey, quilt is 64x44 and weights 20 oz with suspension. I also made her a basic silpoly stuffsack.

I didn't document the construction method as I didn't do anything revolutionary. Plan your quilt, cut your fabric, make a sandwich of CS -> liner -> channels -> shell and start stitching, turn inside out, finish stitching. Add suspension. Go camping.

Here is the finished product - one extra step I took was to cut the shell 2" larger so that I could box the corners and have a 1" differential in the height of the shell as the 5oz CS is supposed to loft 1.2". I thought this turned out really well, and perhaps you can see how the CS and shell sits on top of the liner fully lofted.



Here's a corner and suspension, I added grosgrain to help take some load off of the HyperD 1.0 channels (my down UQ uses MOMENTUM 10 channels and is holding up great). The top cordlock is the secondary suspension which is larksheaded to a mittenhook and cordlocked on each corner for independent adjustment. The bottom cordlock is the endchannel cincher. The shockcord without a cordlock is the primary suspension which runs down the long channels and through the mittenhook. I'll see how I like this and once it's dialed in I'll see if I can simplify.



Here's a wider view of the suspension - the cordlock to the right is where the primary suspension comes back together so that it is adjustable.



Here's a detail of the mittenhook. I think it'll hold up, but if it doesn't it will get replaced with small, metal s-biners from NiteIze which is what I use on my UQ. The larkshead is to keep the secondary suspension independent on each corner, and the primary just passes through unmolested.



Here's a detail of the underside of a corner - I really like how flat the liner is, in a plane with the channels. Boxing the ends of the shell was really straightforward and quick.



Hopefully this added some useful information for anybody thinking about a CS UQ. It was my first time working with that product and I was impressed.