A simple synthetic underquilt that should carry me down into winter temps here in the south. It was pretty easy to make, and the full walk-through is available on my craft blog with a lot more pictures. I may even take a few with it in use if the mosquito birds will die down for a few days.
7.5 climashield is rated down to 10°F, so this will require a lot of adjusting for other seasons but I'm currently too poor to own more than one underquilt.
I followed the general instructions available on the Apex UQ kit, altering only the length and width for the most part. For anyone else who is much shorter or taller than the instructions are intended for (figure that one at 6 feet probably), I used height +6" to figure my length and increased the width as well because I'm a frozen rotisserie chicken.
I trimmed some of the excess insulation when I got done sewing, but I didn't really trim my seam allowances as such. There is not a draft collar built in to this design, so my seam allowance poof a bit as a work around.
The instructions call for one end channel to be set in, and the other to be used to close the other end. I wanted them both set in, so that's what I did. In other news, if you plan to try that, leave your opening for turning the quilt on one of the long ends. The good news is that wonky seams increase your temp rating by 2°. At least that's what I've been telling myself.
I don't trust my hand sewing very much, so in endless frustration, I fired up my sewing machine and zig-zagged over the hand sewn seam. By that point I did not care. I was hangry. It was time to be done.
I ended up using the full 72" length and cutting my width to 48". The end weight is a hefty 1 lb 13 oz, but considering it's a winter weight synthetic quilt, that's really not too bad. Now to make the matchy-matchy top quilt...
Required Materials:
1.1 Ripstop Nylon 2 yards each, charcoal and robin's egg blue 7.5 Climashield Apex combined two remnants of 1.5 and .66 yards Lineloc 3s x4 1/8" Shock cord 25' give or take Gutterman Mara 70 thread
Grosgrain obtained locally 2 1/4" and 3/8" because that's what I could find in silver. They come in rolls of 9 foot, you'll have leftovers!
