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.
