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    Quote Originally Posted by RootCause View Post
    I would like to make an Insultex topquilt to get me down to approx 35*, can someone point me to a pattern that would get me there...?
    35*F is ambitious with an IX TQ.

    Fit is not as important as with a UQ, because it all lays on top of you. The pattern can be simple, like a rectangle with a folded end footbox.

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    waiting on my ix

    Have some on the way and will decide then how to use it. Maybe just with a poncho liner and maybe as a uq by itself not really sure yet. One thing for sure is the forums are full of ideas both pro and con.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RootCause View Post
    I know there was a thread where someone built a TQ out of Insultex, but now I can't locate it. (I'm guessing now it was TeeDee's build.)

    I would like to make an Insultex topquilt to get me down to approx 35*, can someone point me to a pattern that would get me there without a lot of gyrations? (Two layer or three layer IX- it doesn't matter to me.) I just want to know that I'm getting an appropriate air gap, without putting a lot of fuss into it.

    Thanks for anything you can offer up!
    Here's TeeDee's Insultex TQ and UQ

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    Very cool design for the TQ. Is there a need or great advantage to a differential cut TQ in Insultex?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dragon360 View Post
    Very cool design for the TQ. Is there a need or great advantage to a differential cut TQ in Insultex?
    Yes - you still have to keep the Insultex layers separated. If they are mashed together, you lose some, most or all of the insulating properties.

    So differential cut to keep the layers lose and separated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TiredFeet View Post
    Here's TeeDee's Insultex TQ and UQ
    Thanks, TF!

    Quote Originally Posted by MacEntyre View Post
    35*F is ambitious with an IX TQ.
    Fit is not as important as with a UQ, because it all lays on top of you. The pattern can be simple, like a rectangle with a folded end footbox.
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    Mac, coming from the king of IX, I will take your word as gospel. The more research I've done, the more I'm thinking that I'll use a more 'traditional' non-down insulation....

    Although, I'm going to point out your post from the TeeDee thread referenced above, in which you said this about an UQ, back in April 2010:
    Quote Originally Posted by MacEntyre View Post
    This weekend, I found that 2 layers worked well, even down to 32*F
    ...so I'm back to deciding whether or not I'll try TeeDee's approach for maintaining space between IX layers with just two layers in a TQ and seeing how low that will take me.
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    35*F is ambitious for an IX TQ... I've always been comfy down to freezing with an IX UQ.
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