Hobbs Batting Sample Pack is the batting decision made tactile — curated Hobbs samples across cotton, poly, wool, and blends, so the roll purchase is made by hand instead of by guess.
Product Details
- Contents: Representative samples of Hobbs' core batting types — check listing for the current assortment
- Purpose: Side-by-side comparison of hand, loft, and drape before committing to packages or rolls
- Bonus use: Real batting — the pieces work for tension tests and practice sandwiches
- Scale: Evaluation-sized pieces — not project quantities
- Also good as: A practical gift for quilters exploring beyond their default batting
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why sample before buying a roll?
- Because batting is the quilt's whole interior character — hand, drape, warmth, crinkle, needle feel — and none of that survives description. Thirty yards of the wrong batting is an expensive lesson the pack prevents.
- The studio use case?
- Client communication — handing a customer three physical samples ends the "what's the difference" conversation in thirty seconds and produces confident batting upgrades to wool and blend tiers.
- What do the samples reveal that specs don't?
- The subjective half — how Tuscany's staple feels against Heirloom's, how much wool's loft actually springs, whether poly's hand suits a given clientele. Numbers describe none of it.
- Where do most samplers land?
- Heirloom 80/20 as the daily default — and a meaningful minority discover Tuscany Wool or Cotton Wool and add a premium tier they'd never have ordered blind.
- Practice value?
- Each sample doubles as a tension-test sandwich for the batting it represents — test on the actual material before the client quilt loads.
