Interest in hoodless sleeping bags?
Posted: Wed 08 Feb, 2017 10:31 pm
Hi all, as many of you would know I've been making down quilts for a while now. Anyway, a friend who was interested in one was very keen on a hoodless sleeping bag so since it was not too big of a change to my regular quilt pattern I agreed to make one for her. The basic deal is take one my quilts, remove the "back hole", extend the zipper all the way to the top and add some partial baffles to control the extra fabric area.
The idea, of course, is that you sleep on top of the zipper (a small #3 coil zip) so that there is no need for a draft tube. Shoulder girth is 155cm and foot girth is 97cm. There is a snap button at the top and one at around knee height to facilitate use as a quilt and it has the same fully opening zip and drawcord footbox with draft blocker pillow as my quilts. Adds about 30g for a -8C bag compared to a -8C quilt including the extra zip, fabric and down.
Enough waffle, here's some pics:
From the top it looks very much like one of my quilts.
But from the back it's clear things are a bit different.
In quilt mode
Detail of the top of the zipper with snap button.
The snap button at knee level to help keep the zip done up to an appropriate level in quilt mode. This must be unsnapped to close the zip up further.
The same drawcord footbox as my quilts with draft blocker pillow.
Fully opened in blanket mode.
At the moment I'm basically looking to gauge interest and stimulate discussion on this type of sleeping bag. Personally I'm happy sticking with a quilt and probably many quilt users would also feel that way but this type of sleeping bag might be just right for some, it's certainly quite versatile.
So is this something you'd be interested in (or not interested in) or even if you're not in the market do you think it'd be an attractive option? Any small changes or additions you'd like to see?
To go forward I'll need to build in a few extra features in my templates (which realistically I'm probably going to do anyway) and buy a bunch more of the long separating zippers.
P.s. the Red Ochre and Burnt Orange colour combo looks awesome imo.
The idea, of course, is that you sleep on top of the zipper (a small #3 coil zip) so that there is no need for a draft tube. Shoulder girth is 155cm and foot girth is 97cm. There is a snap button at the top and one at around knee height to facilitate use as a quilt and it has the same fully opening zip and drawcord footbox with draft blocker pillow as my quilts. Adds about 30g for a -8C bag compared to a -8C quilt including the extra zip, fabric and down.
Enough waffle, here's some pics:
From the top it looks very much like one of my quilts.
But from the back it's clear things are a bit different.
In quilt mode
Detail of the top of the zipper with snap button.
The snap button at knee level to help keep the zip done up to an appropriate level in quilt mode. This must be unsnapped to close the zip up further.
The same drawcord footbox as my quilts with draft blocker pillow.
Fully opened in blanket mode.
At the moment I'm basically looking to gauge interest and stimulate discussion on this type of sleeping bag. Personally I'm happy sticking with a quilt and probably many quilt users would also feel that way but this type of sleeping bag might be just right for some, it's certainly quite versatile.
So is this something you'd be interested in (or not interested in) or even if you're not in the market do you think it'd be an attractive option? Any small changes or additions you'd like to see?
To go forward I'll need to build in a few extra features in my templates (which realistically I'm probably going to do anyway) and buy a bunch more of the long separating zippers.
P.s. the Red Ochre and Burnt Orange colour combo looks awesome imo.