Quilt fixing. Why?

Do you connect your quilt to your mat?

  • Never

    Votes: 18 56.3%
  • Sometimes

    Votes: 11 34.4%
  • Always

    Votes: 2 6.3%
  • One side only

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • Total voters
    32

Padstowe

Thru Hiker
On the pillow/drift front. I have a base layer in a stuff sack that I wear for sleeping, the clothes I was wearing during the day are then stuffed in the stuff sack if dry or if wet/muddy stuffed in a placky bag with the base layer top from the day wrapped round the outside of the placky bag, then in the stuff sack.
Maybe not to everyone's taste, but does me.
 

ZenTrekker

Section Hiker
The guy in your video stitched the elastic to the mat, which is probably what I'll do although a bit nervous of wrecking the mat I must admit. Doesn't help with shortness though.
I'd be very nervous of putting a needle anywhere near my mat or pillow. I don't have a good track record with sewing. I would use a machine but Management's sewing machine is a Polish communist era model and its a bit idiosyncratic
 

Teepee

Thru Hiker
I usually rest my head on my pack. Layed off the mat, with an air pillow/filled buff/stuffed drybag clipped or tied to it. Pack spaghetti often does a good job of keeping everything in place. With some weight in a pack, some lumps around it like footwear, I find they don't move much.
 
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Enzo

Thru Hiker
Agree with what mole said, even if I'm wearing all my warm layers I still have my waterproofs that can go in the dry bag/,buff combo. Wet buff is not optimal but hey.
 

Padstowe

Thru Hiker
I do the same with packs that have lids, place my head in the hollow between what was left in the pack & the bump of the lid, does a good job of holding your head.
 

FOX160

Thru Hiker
Well, there are plenty of pillow threads already.

However:p:

I don't find fixing a pillow to the mat useful. It's not how I sleep, and my mat/the position of myself upon it aren't always arranged optimally within the shelter due to terrain/slope to make a fixed pillow work.

The several air pillows I've tried are either too small, too thin , puncture/leak, too heavy...

I went back to a stuffed ( buff covered) drybag as a main pillow. I just find it more comfy than an air pillow. I take the clothes I need for camp in the coolest temperature I could expect to encounter. On multidays this is variable due to weather or camping at different altitudes; so I'll often have a layer spare to stuff for pillow, or at minimum, waterproofs/mitts (and if wet I've turned a drybag inside out before).

I do sometimes on longer trips, take a tiny 40g mammut air pillow which is only useful as a sleep pillow inside a hooded bag, but good as an extra support layer for reading in bed.

Just wondering it’s time to buy a larger air pillow and be done with it, theirs to much compromise on ones sleep regarding the pillow and weight. Being a restless side sleeper I’ve woken too many times looking for my small mammut pillow and now use this from https://www.decathlon.co.uk/air-basic-pillow-grey-id_8055369.html which as been really good but feel a little wider would be the sweet spot https://www.klymit.com/luxe-pillow.html or this one https://www.klymit.com/pillow-x-large.html
 

hillwalker66

Ultralighter
Is anyone else tempted to put a velcro fastened placket in the centre of theirs, so that they can wear it as a poncho?

I did that to my mk1 over quilt but never used it like a poncho before going to my mk2. Makes sense if your socializing at night, saves bringing a puffy. But then you can sleep in a puffy so perhaps the weight saving are illusory.
My mld spirit quilt has 1 but I don’t use in poncho mode as much as I thought I would . If buying again probably would bother.
 
My mld spirit quilt has 1 but I don’t use in poncho mode as much as I thought I would . If buying again probably would bother.

Hmm, yes I was wondering how much actual function it would have, relative to the extra faff of making.

And even in absence of poncho hole.
I could still swaddle myself, and skip about camp, like a purple paisley princess :asshat:

Not seen that before. Neat idea!

So many projects, so little time

Not least the choosing of the colourway :happy:
 

FOX160

Thru Hiker
Looking at using a small pillow case and placing my hybrid jacket in it as I only inflate the pillow
by 30cm. Has long as I’m on level ground I find that placing the pillow against the bathtub floor, then placing
my mat up against the pillow keeps the pillow in place.
 

hillwalker66

Ultralighter
Looking at using a small pillow case and placing my hybrid jacket in it as I only inflate the pillow
by 30cm. Has long as I’m on level ground I find that placing the pillow against the bathtub floor, then placing
my mat up against the pillow keeps the pillow in place.
I slide my windshell over top of mat. ( could use gillet, water proof jkt or what ever you have spare). Slide inflatable pillow in, or spare clothes, for a pillow that stays in place. Been using this method for years, keep pillow in place, no matter how much you toss and turn during the night.
 
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