Featherstone Moondance 25 Top Quilt Sleeping Bag Alternative

During my trip to Cardigan Mountain I used this quilt for the first time. It didn’t disappoint.

Pack size surprised me. I gained two whole inches of pack space compared to my ÖV quilt, and my OV quilt was a big improvement over my prior bag.

Comfortable was unreal, kept me warm throughout the night as temps dipped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Was soft and puffy providing a sense of comfort that let me relax and have a good nights rest.

From a quality perspective, it is solid. Stitching was firm and clean. Loft is consistent across all sections making warmth consistent across the quilt. Foot box zipper slid easily without snagging, something most products fail at.

Do I recommend it, YES without hesitation.

There is nothing about this quilt I dislike! Its a setup for hammock camping, but I used it last night over a foam mat, and an air mattress. This quilt kept me nice and toasty. This quilt has water repellent stuff on it because I had some dew inside the tent and saw that this quilt just rolled it off. The best thing about this is its super lightweight and it rolls down in to a small bag making it my go-to (I plan on using this with a poncho liner.) I will say that this quilt is pricy, but for what it is and it's ability to be used with a hammock this quilt to me is worth the money. I'm rating this lightweight down quilt a five out of five! Thank you! -Mike

I was apprehensive at first since I’ve never used a quilt bag before. Not only is this bag super light weight for as thin as it is, it kept me quite toasty up in the Sierras mountains! Zippered foot-end helps since I always hate when I wake up my feet are sticking out of the bag.Impressed to say the least, granted cost may seem high but I’ve looked at REI bags and checked around for 850 fill w/DownTek and you’ll be surprised at the cost. This one is cheaper and local made.Note: wish I could roll up as tight to fit back into the carry sleeve? But since it’s so lightweight you can easily stuff it back in lol.

I recently purchased the Featherstone Moondance 25 Down Top Quilt in grey/gold, and it has truly exceeded my expectations! This quilt has quickly become my go-to sleeping solution for ultralight backpacking and camping trips.Exceptional Warmth:With 850 fill power down, this quilt provides outstanding warmth without the bulk. I've tested it on chilly nights, and I can confidently say it keeps me cozy and comfortable through the night. The insulation is impressive and retains heat very well.Lightweight and Compact:One of the standout features is its lightweight design. It packs down small, making it ideal for backpacking and thru-hiking where every ounce counts. I appreciate how easy it is to fit into my backpack without taking up too much space.Versatile and Comfortable:The mummy-style design offers a snug fit, and I love the versatility of using it as an alternative to a traditional sleeping bag. It allows for more freedom of movement, which is a huge plus when I'm camping.Quality Craftsmanship:The materials feel high-quality, and the stitching is well done. I can tell that this quilt is built to last, even with regular use in the outdoors.Overall, I highly recommend the Featherstone Moondance 25 Down Top Quilt for anyone looking for an ultralight, high-quality sleeping solution. It’s warm, compact, and incredibly comfortable—definitely worthy of a 5-star rating! This quilt has improved my camping experience, and I wouldn't go on a trip without it!

My plan is to use this bag for car camping in the cold weather so I like that it can be unclipped and flipped to use as a cover as well as a sleeping bag.. It takes up very little space when packed, is extremely easy to roll and pack back into the bag, comfortable and lightweight yet warm so would also be an excellent backpacking sleeping bag. I ordered the larger size so my 6’ tall husband could use it too but I think we could have ordered a regular size. In the photo you can see how the bag is extra long and drapes over the end of a queen sized bed. An excellent well constructed bag.

I ordered this for my husband since he always teases me about how obsessed I am with my sleeping bag blanket. I definitely prefer camping quilts to sleeping bags since they offer me more freedom to reposition as I sleep. This camping quilt caught my eye because it's roomy enough for my husband and has a lot of cool features that mine doesn't. I like how everything has a place, it comes with a bag for the straps to hold it to a sleeping pad. It gives you options, you can use it as a normal blanket or zip up the bottom and pull the drawstring closed to keep your toes warm. The down filling makes this super lightweight, soft and warm. It's extremely well made and reasonably priced. My husband no longer teases me about my sleeping bag quilt and I'm pretty sure he's expecting me to steal this one!

This 850 fill power down sleeping quilt has quickly become a staple in my camping and backpacking kit. As someone who is 6’ tall and 150 lbs, I opted for the regular size, and it fits me well. I’ve used this quilt on multiple trips, and it has consistently kept me comfy and warm, without making me feel constricted.Compact and Lightweight:This quilt is incredibly compact and lightweight, making it ideal for backpacking. It fluffs up quickly after being compressed, and the included stuff sack is small yet easy to use, ensuring I can pack it down without any hassle.Versatility:The quilt can lay flat, and I appreciate the two elastic straps that secure it to my sleeping pad, preventing it from slipping around during the night. You can also keep it clipped semi-closed, and the foot section zips up to create a foot pouch, which is great for avoiding drafts. The cinch at the top allows me to tighten it around my shoulders for added warmth, though it doesn’t have a hood. I suspect shorter folks could shimmy down inside and make an improvised cinched hood.This design is excellent for people like me who tend to move around or stick a leg or arm out while sleeping—it stays in place much better than other quilts I’ve tried.Warmth:The temperature rating of 36° with a lower limit of 26° is accurate in my experience. I bring a thin liner if I expect temperatures to drop below freezing, but this quilt has kept me warm in most conditions. The DownTek treatment means that it will maintain its insulating properties even if it gets damp. I am not a fan of hypothermia so was super happy to see this.Supplemental Use:This quilt will also be part of my gear for colder trips, serving as supplemental warmth over my 20° or even 0° sleeping bag when temperatures plummet.Overall, this quilt is an excellent alternative to a traditional sleeping bag, offering a lightweight, compact, and versatile option for thrashy sleepers or those who don’t like to feel constricted. It’s become a key part of my gear, and I highly recommend it for those looking for a reliable and flexible sleeping solution. I think it’s a very good value for the price, too. If you have had a down quilt before, you know the sticker shock can be real, and at $229 for the regular size at the time of this writing, I think this is a good deal.

Warmth: Used this quilt for the first time with temps in the 40s and extremely damp outside and I was toasty. Loft was great and there were no cold spots.Pad: I used it with an REI Helix Long/Wide pad and the large quilt and straps sealed very well around the pad on the sides and there was no draft.Fit: I am 6 ft tall and over 200 pounds and bought the large. It was plenty big enough and I think I may have been ok with the smaller size. The draft collar at the top does a great job of cinching around my shoulders and to the side of the pad. The drawstring is located in the middle of the top of the quilt which is a bit odd but it does make it easy to cinch. I didn't have an issue with the small hole at the bottom as it cinched up very well.PROBLEM: Straps: The included straps work well but they are not robust. On my third night using the quilt, the one buckle broke. I would have given 5 stars if it weren't for the strap buckle quality. It's not a difficult fix in the field and may see if I could figure out a better permanent solution.Overall I would highly recommend this quilt especially for the price and insulation performance.

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***** Update*****I have now tested this in wet cold conditions where the bag got wet, but I stayed dry and comfortable.I was able to smash it down quite nicely into the bottom of my pack and then keep it down with my food and other gear. It later lofted up nicely for me to camp 2 nights just below the peak of Silver Star Mtn on an exposed site with an excellent view. I had a bit of rain the first night, followed by all day drizzle, and a second night of more rain.I am accustomed to doing regular tent condensation wipe-downs throughout the night. Still, the last foot or so of my sleeping bag’s shell was clearly wet from tent condensation. I became more diligent about keeping my feet off the wall. I also got the rest of my bag sprinkled with water when getting in and out of the shelter. Never once did I feel any loss of loft. And the shell dried super-fast. Also, while I could have wandered around in the drizzly wet fog of 4-20 ft visibility, I chose to wallow around all day reading, snacking, and napping. I used it like a blanket fully opened tossing and turning. It got warm. I used the sleeping bag as a body pillow. I used it as a knee pillow. It got cold and the bag went back on me. I zipped up and cinched the feet. I snapped the top around my neck. Things were easy to cinch and clip by feel. I did need my light when I felt a draft at my feet. Did I mention the lovely puddle of water formed in one large corner of the tent? Oh wait it puddle in a second one too. All in all, the versatility was great, and I was perfectly comfortable. I think it got down to 38°f. I did once duck my head under the edge, but I never secured it to my pad or put it in its tightest sleeping bag mode. It certainly could have handled colder and is a GREAT bang for your ultra light buck.For frame of reference, I was in a light weight breezy single wall six moon designs lunar solo tent. I also had my Nemo all season R-5.4 sleeping pad under me. A good sleeping pad is a key component to any quilt sleeping system.******end of update*******I have had this quilt less than 2 days. I haven't field tested this, but I am already very excited about it. My initial impression suggests this is a fabulous bang for your buck option considering price, weight, flexibility and warmth. You can see in my video I got a little silly, but that's how I discovered how to transform the quilt into a great well fitted cape jacket with the clips and bungies!!I am a broad-shouldered with a c/d cup busted 5’5” woman at 165/170 lb range and hold weight in my belly. I wiggle around a lot at night, don't like being trapped, and love my katabatic flex 15 quilt, which is just too warm in the summer. This Featherstone Moondance 25 is similar in weight to my katabatic, but it should be a bit cooler. It is very comfortable opened up all the way as a quilt. It is also is quite tolerable cinched down into sleeping bag mode with its built in wafer clips. The sweet spot for me is quilt clipped to the pad where I can wallow around pretty freely and keep cool air from creeping in under the edges.Here are what my scale says the weights are:Quilt alone with no extras 24.9oz (706g)Extra Straps 0.6oz (18g)Strap bag 0.1oz (5g)Stuff sack 0.4oz (12g)The loft is great. Baffling looks pretty good. I haven't seen any loose down peeking out. Presumably, I’ll need to mush the down around as it moves within the baffles to keep the fluff where I want it. There are vertical baffles in the torso down to the lower legs where horizontal baffling takes over. The edge baffles go vertical all the way down and around the bottom. I suggest not hanging this when storing to minimize unintentional gravity induced downward migration of the down. Allowing it to fluff in a ginormous breathable bag during storage will most certainly extend its life. It would have been great if a storage bag was included.I have good room in the foot zone even when that zone is cinched and zipped up. There is room to store electronics and a water filter down there during freezing temps. I find it a bit snug at the shoulders when clipped together with the built in clips, but not as tight as some mummy bags. I could wear a puffy in there.You get more sleeping room if you use the extra wafer clip straps to secure the quilt to a pad (or to extend the clips around the pad.) They are a bit too tight (for inflating purposes) to permanently store on my wide rectangular (25” Nemo tensor) pad, but they definitely stretch around the inflated pad. They will also work underneath the pad to wrap the quilt around the pad. This second option with my wide pad makes it difficult to snap and cinch down at the neck. These straps are adjustable. Utilize the extra fold in the elastic strap to lock one wafer clip from going further. Then you can pull on the elastic through the other side t...

The Featherstone Moondance 25 850 Fill Power Down Top Quilt Mummy Sleeping Bag is a great sleeping bag alternative for camping out. It's light and compact and doesn't add much weight to your travel bag. The quality is nice and this Mummy style sleeping bag uses your own body heat to keep warm. It's recommended to have something beneath you, so you can be insulated from the cold ground. An thin air mattress works wonders. If too warm, you can unzip to find the perfect temperature. Overall, great to use if you are planning to camp anywhere cold.

This is one great and, sort of, budget friendly top quilt. Being avid campers with hammock camping being our favourite method of camping, a top quilt is the top choice of almost any hanger to keep warm and comfortable.I said, "budget friendly" and some might look at the price of this and wonder what I mean. Well, if you have even priced one of these 850 duck down top quilts, you will see that this saves you a "C" note or two and gives the same, if not better, service as the high dollar items.We have had one of their earlier versions of this for a couple seasons now and have used it while camping in hammocks, trailers and tents. Also, sitting around the house, inside or outside, during the winter it has been used to keep us warm. And it has done a great job of it. We have taken ours down to the mid to low 20s and were cozy warm and comfortable.It is made of a very soft and smooth feeling outer and inner skin, with 850 duck down as fill. Not a single down stem has even come through the skins. There is a zipper on the "foot box" that works quite well. A snap on a strap goes behind the neck to keep the upper portion closed and there are a couple of straps with buckles going down the open back side. These buckles have been a little uncomfortable at times but nothing really bad. A drawstring at the top and bottom gives you control on closing or venting. The foot drawstring is real nice as you can vent it to allow some of the heat to be expelled.The design of this new quilt is the same as the earlier version with one very useful exception. The stuff sack has a built in handle where the earlier version lacked it. I have always struggled with removing the quilt without this handle. The design is such that the sack's colour is that the outer skin is and the label and bag drawstring matches the inner skin.I can truly recommend this to anyone wanting to replace their sleeping bag with a true top quilt that will keep you as warm, if not warmer, than a regular sleeping bag and allows you more freedom of movement. We really love ours!!!

I've been using this quilt daily over the last few days. I'm very happy with it.In the winter I use a down sleeping bag. It's bulkier than this quilt, heavier and is too hot to use except during winter. I needed something a little less bulky and something that could fill the roll of a sleeping bag when cold and a blanket when it's warmer. I've tried different sleep systems (ranger roll in the military - too cold below 55F), bulky summer-only sleeping bags, etc. For me (and seemingly many others) a quilt is becoming the way to go.When it's warmer, just throw it back. No need to unzip. When it gets cold just cinch it up around you and your body heat will warm you up in minutes. You will need insulation beneath you so the cold ground doesn't seep away body heat. I use a full length inflatable pad topped by a military poncho liner. The liner adds some warmth but mostly just makes the air mattres softer and more comfortable.There are 2 straps included to loop around the pad to keep the quilt attached. These work very well and weigh nothing.The loft is very good and it fluffs back up after being in my pack all day. Took less than 5 minutes from being compressed to fully useable. Of course you'll want this uncompressed for storage.There is a zipper for the foot box as well as ties that completely close up so your feet stay warm.The included storage bag is a little too snug - I use a mesh bag that's a little larger and it's perfect. Rolled up it fits in the bottom zippered compartment of my pack.I got the long quilt - unless you're under 5' 5" get the longer one. You'll want to pull up the excess over your head on those cold nights and it doesn't really add to the weight. They spec this quilt at about 30 F for comfort. That seems right based on my experience.The weight is about one pound. If you're going ultra-light, consider this.For me this is a winner.

Like heaven sleeping under this. So light but warm. Haven’t backpacked with it yet. So flexible compared to my traditional sleeping bags. I don’t see any sacrifices in quality for the price. I think it’s excellent. I think I would go with a lower temper rating, if looking at going into the late fall or early spring.

I haven’t had a chance to use it but,it looked like it is made very well it is a high end product.