diff --git a/src/header/mod.rs b/src/header/mod.rs
index f19c6e6205..9b8338cae9 100644
--- a/src/header/mod.rs
+++ b/src/header/mod.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use unicase::UniCase;
 use self::cell::OptCell;
 use {http, HttpResult, HttpError};
 
-pub use self::shared::{Encoding, EntityTag, Quality, QualityItem, qitem};
+pub use self::shared::{Encoding, EntityTag, Quality, QualityItem, qitem, q};
 pub use self::common::*;
 
 mod cell;
diff --git a/src/header/shared/mod.rs b/src/header/shared/mod.rs
index dd81208abe..83f1c1c525 100644
--- a/src/header/shared/mod.rs
+++ b/src/header/shared/mod.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pub use self::encoding::Encoding;
 pub use self::entity::EntityTag;
-pub use self::quality_item::{Quality, QualityItem, qitem};
+pub use self::quality_item::{Quality, QualityItem, qitem, q};
 
 mod encoding;
 mod entity;
diff --git a/src/header/shared/quality_item.rs b/src/header/shared/quality_item.rs
index 814668d4d9..fd191d1269 100644
--- a/src/header/shared/quality_item.rs
+++ b/src/header/shared/quality_item.rs
@@ -11,11 +11,10 @@ use std::str;
 
 /// Represents a quality used in quality values.
 ///
-/// `Quality` should only be created using the `FromPrimitve` trait methods `from_f32` and
-/// `from_f64`, they take a value between 0.0 and 1.0. To create a quality with the value 1.0, the
-/// default you can use `let q: Quality = Default::default()`.
+/// Can be created with the `q` function.
 ///
 /// # Implementation notes
+///
 /// The quality value is defined as a number between 0 and 1 with three decimal places. This means
 /// there are 1000 possible values. Since floating point numbers are not exact and the smallest
 /// floating point data type (`f32`) consumes four bytes, hyper uses an `u16` value to store the
@@ -149,6 +148,11 @@ pub fn qitem<T>(item: T) -> QualityItem<T> {
     QualityItem::new(item, Default::default())
 }
 
+/// Convenience function to create a `Quality` fromt a float.
+pub fn q(f: f32) -> Quality {
+    FromPrimitive::from_f32(f).expect("q value must be between 0.0 and 1.0")
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use std::num::FromPrimitive;