My feet sometimes get cold and so I wanted a real foot box. That's one aspect of many commercial quilts (like the Enlightened one I mentioned) that I don't like. I modeled the foot box for my quilt after one of my Western Mountaineering sleeping bags. Basically it's a slightly oval shape with two horizontal baffled sections. Sewing it to the main part of the bag takes some time and care. Because I chose to fill it before doing this step it was a little harder to turn the whole thing inside out in order to get hidden stitches. The inner (black) fringe connects to the last inner part of the main quilt and the outer (red) fringe to the outer part of the quilt. So the loose fringe you see in the photos below is part of the final baffled and filled tube that goes around the quilt. This insures an uninterrupted loft down by my feet.
This end piece weighed 7.2g empty and 20.5g stuffed with down.




